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Julia Fish, born in Toledo, Oregon, in 1950, develops paintings in Chicago through close observation of her domestic surroundings. Thresholds between rooms, floors and architectural details become motifs that approach abstraction. In the Threshold series, depiction at actual size retains a precise relationship to place; one painting shows linoleum, wood and stone framed by doorjambs and an open door.
Her house, a former storefront dating from 1922, provides a field of study in which light, seasons and orientation alter perception. Paintings and works on paper map these experiences. View, organised by the Renaissance Society in 1996, brought together a decade of investigations into abstraction and representation. The DePaul Art Museum devoted its 2019–2020 exhibition bound by spectrum to the development of this work between 2009 and 2019.
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Pastel
"Study for Twilight"
pastel
Catalogue period : 2025-11-27 — 2025-12-10
Published result : 480 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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