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Since Eisenman came to public attention in New York in the mid-1990s for their ribald depictions of human bodies and human life, the artist has become known as one of the most important figurative painters of their generation. Eisenman’s print is a frenetic and pleasurably overwhelming rendering of the patrons of an outdoor beer garden, seemingly at the zenith of their nighttime revelry. Eisenman has not only densely packed this print with hundreds of individual human (and animal) subjects, but the artist has also rendered them in a highly diverse array of formal styles. Some faces exhibit the flat and abbreviated features of a cubist portrait; some look straight out of a comic book with bulbous noses and oversized eyes; and some are inexplicably naked.
DimensionsFrame: 47 x 54 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (119.4 x 138.4 x 3.8 cm)
Sheet: 44 3/8 x 51 3/4 in. (112.7 x 131.4 cm)
Image: 40 x 48 in. (101.6 x 121.9 cm)
Sheet: 44 3/8 x 51 3/4 in. (112.7 x 131.4 cm)
Image: 40 x 48 in. (101.6 x 121.9 cm)
Accession Number 2025.19
Classificationsprint
SignedNicole Eisenman 12-17 (l,r graphite)
Inscriptions6/15 (l,l graphite)
EISEN141255 (verso on tape)
EditionEd. 6/15 + 4 AP
Paper/Support Haneühle paper
ProvenanceHarlan and Weaver, New York; Private Collection (Hauser and Wirth); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from previous, 2025]
