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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2017 | Bonhams | Los Angeles | California and Western Paintings and Sculpture | 50 | $****** - ****** | When Fields Lie Fallow |
paintings
101.6 x 127 cm (40 x 50 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated '·WILLIAM WENDT· 19[?]1-' (lower left)
The artist.
with Petersen Galleries, Beverly Hills, California.
Collection of James and Linda Ries, Southern California.
Private collection, Southern California.
44 paintings in a one man show at the Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles and an additional 46 paintings at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Chicago, 1921, n.p.
National Academy of Design, Catalogue of the 97th Annual Exhibition, New York, 1922, p. 12.
The California Art Club, Twenty-second Annual Exhibition [exh. cat.], November 12 - December 31, 1931.
Janet Blake Dominik, Laguna Art Museum, Early Artists in Laguna Beach: The Impressionists, Laguna Beach, 1986, no. 95, p. 61 (full page color illustration).
Harvey L. Jones, Philip E. Linhares, Paul C. Mills, Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, James and Linda Ries, A Time and Place: From the Ries Collection of California Painting, Oakland, 1990.
John Alan Walker, Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt (1865-1946), California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage moralisé, Big Sur, 1992, no. 797, p. 202.
Will South, Jean Stern, and Janet Blake, In Nature's Temple, The Life and Art of William Wendt, Irvine, 2008, p. 17 (full page color illustration).
When Fields Lie Fallow
signed and dated '·WILLIAM WENDT· 19[?]1-' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40 x 50in
overall: 52 x 62in
Painted circa 1921
