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SANS TITRE (CHEVAL), 1990 Oil on canvas Signed and dated on the back 45,4 x 60,7 cm - 17.9 x 23.9 in. Oil on canvas Signed and dated at the back Provenance: - Mary Boone Gallery, New York - Private collection, Paris From 1970, Eric Fischl studied at the California Institute of Arts in Valencia, where he met David Salle and Matt Mullican In 1979, his first painting in a naturalistic style immediately placed him in the current of the New Figuration. From this work, his art illustrates the decline of the American way of life and represents an indictment of the American bourgeoisie and the cold banality of its daily life. In his paintings, where so much erotic and psychic tension emanates, Eric Fischl sets out the taboos of society, represents them and brings to light an archetypal material that is constantly present but repressed by society. Fischl's painting is inspired by reality and his use of photographic models immediately induces a certain naturalism that is more Pearlstein-like than his European contemporaries. Eric Fischl participates in the Venice Biennale in 1984, the Paris Biennale in 1985, the Sydney Biennale in 1986 and the Documenta 8 in Kassel in 1987. A retrospective of his work was held in Lausanne and Vienna in 1990. "It is in the darkness that our fears, our demons, our destroyers lurk. It is in the shadows that an important part of our brain and our intelligence becomes active. This is where the imagination prevails and where our feelings of security and certainty give way to uncertainty and prayer. It is in the shadow world that we become strong because that is where we must use our minds to survive. Shadows are the intermediate world. They are memory and projection. It is the shadow that reminds us of death." Eric Fischl