Lot 133
  • 133

William Wendt 1865-1946

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • William Wendt
  • Vandalism
  • signed William Wendt and dated 1916, l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 50 by 60 in.
  • (127 by 152.4 cm)

Provenance

Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, California
Adamson-DuVannes Gallery, West Hollywood, California
Security Pacific Bank, California, circa 1980
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, Winter 1916, no. 254
Los Angeles, California, Museum of History, Science and Art, Exhibition of Paintings by William Wendt and Sculpture by Julia Bracken Wendt, May 1918, no. 3
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Center, California Design 1910, October-December 1974, p. 50, illustrated
Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, William Wendt 1865-1946, February 1977, no. 71
Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Desert Museum, The West as Art Changing Perceptions of Western Art in California Collections, 1982, illustrated in color pl. 23

Literature

John Alan Walker, "William Wendt Retrospective: Sunshine and the Brooding Melancholy of Nature," American Art Review, vol. 4, no. 4, January 1978, p. 103, illustrated
Art of California, June-July 1989, p. 49, illustrated in color
John Alan Walker, Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt: 1865-1946, Big Pine, California, 1992, no. 770, p. 199, illustrated in color on the cover

Condition

Generally good condition; lined; some isolated craquelure, under UV: an 11 by 5 inch L-shaped repaired tear in upper left.
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