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In Sharp Focus: Photorealism from a Distinguished Private Collection

Dagmar Fehlau

Broadway

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In Sharp Focus: Photorealism from a Distinguished Private Collection

Dagmar Fehlau

b. 1970


Broadway

titled B-Way and variously inscribed (lower right)

watercolor and graphite on paper

15 ⅛ by 11 ¾ in.

38.4 by 29.8 cm.

Executed in 1993.

Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in March 1996 by the present owner

Broadway exemplifies Dagmar Fehlau’s precise engagement with the urban fabric of New York. Focusing on a close-up of a building facade, Fehlau isolates fire escapes, windows, and ornamental details, transforming familiar architecture into a rhythmic study of line, color, and light. Sharp diagonals and repeating grids emphasize the city’s underlying geometry. Here, the everyday architecture of the city becomes an abstracted portrait of urban order and energy.