CHARLES PACHTER "PINK PREPARATORY FLAG", 1981 Paper mache 1970s Screenprint on crêpe-de-Chine

Screenprint on crêpe-de-Chine

With his distinctive figurative intensity

light-hearted parody

and mixed media on paper

An organic form swells across the page and begs the viewer to interpret its presence

CHARLES PACHTER "PINK PREPARATORY FLAG", 1981 Paper mache 1970s Screenprint on crêpe-de-ChineIn the Spring of 1981, Charles Pachter began working on his most iconic and celebrated series: the Painter Flag. Decades before Photoshop, Pachter went around Toronto taking photos of Canadian flags in the wind. Before he finalized the compositions on canvas, he used his photographs either cutting out abstracted versions or painting directly over the photographs. Caviar20 was fortunate to find a small number of these preparatory works in the artist's