Sold for $16,380

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Lot Description

Richard Schmid

(American, 1934-2021)

Gladiolas, 1962

oil on canvas

signed Schmid (lower right); signed, titled and dated (verso)

24 x 36 inches

Property from an Estate, Sold to Benefit the Wichita Art Museum

Provenance:
Reynolds Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, November, 1963
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Richard Schmid, who might well be called the painter’s painter of our generation in terms of representational art because of the popular classes he taught as well as the instructional books and videos he created. Schmid developed a personal poetic approach to realism, and, throughout his career, as his website says, he extolled the virtues of the “Grand Manner, a certain mingling of virtuosity and unrestrained joy in art…” In Gladiolas, Schmid captures a moment of potential, when the bouquet has been unwrapped but not yet arranged in the vase. With broad, bravura strokes, Schmid conveys the vitality of the flowers and the sense of creativity that is about to take place as the flowers are artfully presented.

-James D. Balestrieri

Condition Report

Framed dimensions: 31 1/4 x 43 1/4 inches

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