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Lot description
David Bumbeck (Vermont 1940-) Duesenberg 12.5 x 15.5" 25 x 27" as framed and Speedster 10.5 x 12.5" 23 x 25" as framed. Sold to benefit Burlington City Arts. Trained in the 1960s, Bumbeck holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and a master's in fine arts from Syracuse University. Coming of age in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, when improvisation and a love of indefinite surfaces characterized much serious art making, Bumbeck's art has always been meticulous and exacting in its degree of finish. His engravings and etchings are achieved with tools so precise and delicate that they require him to use magnifying glasses as he works the plates. Similarly, his use of photo etching in prints of the 70s and 80s further enhanced his ability to capture appearances exactly. In his most characteristic printed works, Bumbeck drew upon a wide range of images from past art, arranging them in complex compositions that resembled collages. A notable series of artist portraits of the 1980s combined images of the artists themselves with quotations drawn from their most recognizable imagery.Throughout his career Bumbeck has been passionately engaged in the study of earlier art and artists, and among his more than 1,100 former students are a number of well known and respected artists who have expressed their gratitude to him for imparting this passion. Bumbeck's art is primarily figurative, with the nude female figure a particular focus. Enamored equally of artists like Picasso, de Chirico, and Joseph Cornell, Bumbeck's sensibility is both enigmatic and mysterious. He is likely to quote de Chirico's "What shall I love if not enigma?"