Lot 22
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Elmer Bischoff (B. 1916)
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Elmer Bischoff (B. 1916)

No. 43

Details
Elmer Bischoff (B. 1916)
No. 43
signed, titled and dated 'Elmer Bischoff #43 1979' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
38¾ x 45¾ in. (98.4 x 116.2 cm.)
Painted in 1979.
Provenance
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
Exhibited
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art; Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, and Laguna Beach, Laguna Art Museum, Elmer Bischoff: 1947-1985, December 1986-January 1987, no. 17 (illustrated, p. 34).

Lot Essay

"I want to play between soft, fused edges and sharp, hard edges...opaque paint and translucent paint..slowly applied paint and rapid brushwork. . . My aim has been to have the paint on the canvas play a double role -- one as an alive, sensual thing in itself, and the other conveying a response to the subject. Between the two is this tightrope" (E. Bischoff, op.cit., p. 39).