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Lot 100
Description:
Theodore Wendel (American, 1859-1932), "View of Venice along the Rio Nuovo Canal", c. 1878-80, oil on canvas, signed "Theo Wendel" lower right, 21 in. x 24 in., in a period Arts and Crafts-style carved and giltwood frame.
- Notes: Note: Theodore Wendel was one of the most successful and respected Impressionist landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A native of Ohio, Wendel studied with Thomas Noble at the McMicken School of Art at the University of Cincinnati. He traveled to Munich, Germany in 1878 with his good friend Joseph DeCamp to study with Frank Duveneck at the Munich Academy. Wendel and his friends became known as the "Duveneck Boys", and the group included Duveneck, Chase, Whistler, and Twachtman. From 1878 to 1880, they painted landscapes and figural paintings in Polling outside Munich, as well as in Florence and Venice. Most of Wendel¹s paintings from this period disappeared and are very rare. The view offered here is from this time and depicts the Rio Nuovo canal in Venice. Using soft shades of rose, pale blue and green, Wendel¹s gestural brushwork produced an early work of Impressionism by an American artist. Later in 1887-88, Wendel studied in France and became good friends with Claude Monet. He was one of the few American artists whose work Monet chose to praise. Wendel¹s career was curtailed by illness in 1917 and despite being one of the most important American Impressionists, his reputation gradually faded and he fell into obscurity. His work was basically forgotten until John I. Bauer organized an exhibition of his paintings in 1976 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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March 27, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
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