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Untitled
2001
59 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. (151.77 x 102.87 cm)
Eric Fischl (New York, New York, 1948 - ) Primary
Your Mind, This Moment: Art and the Practice of Attention, February 17, 2017 - August 17, 2017, Second Fl. North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting, October 27, 2012 - May 12, 2013, New Wing, First Floor, Gibson Family and Plaza Galleries, San José Museum of Art. Organized with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
Your Mind, This Moment: Art and the Practice of Attention (2017)
In 1995 – 96, Eric Fischl produced a number of paintings while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. His father had recently passed away, and Fischl found himself deeply moved by his immediate surroundings of Christian art and architecture. In Untitled, Fischl revisits these paintings via watercolor. The image of the nude man holding the limp body of the woman offers a gender role-reversal of a pietà, the depiction of Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus. Fischl’s effortless brushstrokes highlight presence and spirit, transcience and immortality. The figures are at once faint yet vivid—an effect produced by the interaction of the watercolor with the paper—and thus emulate the fragility of both life and death. The tender, loving scene between two mortals plays out against the empty whiteness of the sheet.
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)
For over thirty years, Eric Fischl has mined traditional pictorial modes such as portraiture and scenes of domesticity and leisure to expose boldly the unglamorous body, relationships, male vanity and vulnerability, and impropriety. Fischl’s carefully crafted compositions are influenced by his deep knowledge of the history of Western painting. Untitled is a watercolor inspired by Once Where We Looked to Put Down Our Dead (1996)—one of a number of paintings that Fischl produced while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. Fischl demonstrates his mastery over watercolor by guiding the often fickle medium to create elegant silhouettes in dramatic pose.
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Untitled
Painting
200159 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. (151.77 x 102.87 cm)
Eric Fischl (New York, New York, 1948 - ) Primary
Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Watercolor on paper
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Acquisitions Committee
Accession Number: 2013.10.03
Exhibition
Our whole, unruly selves, November 19, 2021 - June 25, 2022, North, South and Central Skylight Galleries, San José Museum of Art. Your Mind, This Moment: Art and the Practice of Attention, February 17, 2017 - August 17, 2017, Second Fl. North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting, October 27, 2012 - May 12, 2013, New Wing, First Floor, Gibson Family and Plaza Galleries, San José Museum of Art. Organized with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
SJMA Label Text
Your Mind, This Moment: Art and the Practice of Attention (2017)
In 1995 – 96, Eric Fischl produced a number of paintings while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. His father had recently passed away, and Fischl found himself deeply moved by his immediate surroundings of Christian art and architecture. In Untitled, Fischl revisits these paintings via watercolor. The image of the nude man holding the limp body of the woman offers a gender role-reversal of a pietà, the depiction of Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus. Fischl’s effortless brushstrokes highlight presence and spirit, transcience and immortality. The figures are at once faint yet vivid—an effect produced by the interaction of the watercolor with the paper—and thus emulate the fragility of both life and death. The tender, loving scene between two mortals plays out against the empty whiteness of the sheet.
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)
For over thirty years, Eric Fischl has mined traditional pictorial modes such as portraiture and scenes of domesticity and leisure to expose boldly the unglamorous body, relationships, male vanity and vulnerability, and impropriety. Fischl’s carefully crafted compositions are influenced by his deep knowledge of the history of Western painting. Untitled is a watercolor inspired by Once Where We Looked to Put Down Our Dead (1996)—one of a number of paintings that Fischl produced while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. Fischl demonstrates his mastery over watercolor by guiding the often fickle medium to create elegant silhouettes in dramatic pose.
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- Image Dimensions: 59 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. (151.77 x 102.87 cm)
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