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Lot Description

Ed Paschke

(American, 1939-2004)

Tracer

, 1989

oil on linen

signed E. Paschke and dated (lower right); signed, titled and dated (verso)

36 x 24 inches.

Property from the Collection of Susan and Fred Novy, Northbrook, Illinois

Provenance:
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

Exhibited:
Terre Haute, Indiana, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, First Person Plural: Part II/Focus on Ed Paschke, March 3-April 3, 1991, no. 4

This lot is accompanied by a The School of the Art Institute of Chicago promotional poster featuring Tracer

Lot Essay:
Tracer, 1989: The jittery, glowing face of the iconic comic strip Dick Tracy is surrounded by a TV screen and to its left a full color mirror image (also indicated by reverse numbers on the frontal face) of a wannabe Dick Tracy, a Tracer. The duo reflects the essential oneness of the two faces. The merging of icon with “the common man “ suggests the projection of self into cultural identity or the absorption of self by a fictional, flickering icon. The delicately painted surface is a clue to Paschke’s encouraging empathy for a Tracer, the character under a big 1940s gangland Fedora.

William Conger, Artist; Professor Emeritus, Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University

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