Richard Schmid
1934-2021
Carnation and Gold
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 12 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
SHIPPING DIMENSIONS: 23 x 31 inches
SOLD FOR: $60,000.00
Including Buyers Premium
2026 - APRIL,
LOT 318
Additional Information
This lot is accompanied by a signed Artist Proof 28/50 print (11 3/4 x 19 3/8 inches), 1990 The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. and the chalice used as a subject for this piece.
Provenance:
Private collection, Kansas
“Antique dolls are fascinating. You might think I’m rather a bit too old, not to mention the wrong gender, to regard dolls with any interest other than their high value these days,” wrote Richard Schmid in Alla Prima II: Everything I Know About Painting—and More. “However, from both a sociological and artistic point of view, dolls are rich subjects in many ways. Dolls are little versions of people, not so much of ourselves as such, but rather of how we choose to see ourselves. The dolls of any period or place are little idealized renditions of the people who made them. They are also clothed and coiffured according to their contemporaneous status (just as we are)…Though they can sometimes seem spooky, dolls continue to engage me, especially the well-worn ones with one eye left—which I know have been loved by a human child.”