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ELMER NELSON BISCHOFF ()
Three Bathers,
signed, titled and dated 'Elmer Bischoff Three Bathers 12/60' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
67 1/2 x 3/4 in.
x cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in circa
Exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Fifty California Artists, , traveled to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Palo Alto, Cantor Art Museum, Stanford University
Literature
Susan Landauer, Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint, University of California Press: Berkeley, , p, illustrated
A leading figure of the Bay Area Figurative movement, Elmer Bischoff and his contemporaries countered the dominance of abstract expressionism with a return to representational art and the figure.
The present lot, Three Bathers, is a monumental example of Bischoff's mature figurative work and marks a culmination of his outdoor bathers series from the late s. Bischoff painted many of
