Modern, Post War, & Contemporary: Art + Design
Mon, Jun 28, 2021 01:00AM EDT
Lot 42
WILBUR NIEWALD / Studio View North (1973 Watercolor)
Sold for
$850
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| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $5,000 | $250 |
| $10,000 | $500 |
| $20,000 | $1,000 |
| $50,000 | $2,500 |
| $75,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Wilbur Niewald
(Missouri, b. 1925)
Studio View North, 1973
Watercolor on paper
22" x 30"
Signed to the bottom right and titled to the reverse. Float-mounted behind glass in a walnut frame that measures 30" x 38".
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. Each of Niewald's paintings offered in this auction date from the 1970s, a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural observation. In addition to a career of creating exciting and influential works of his own, Niewald joined the Kansas City Art Institute's faculty in 1949, where over the course of several decades in a variety of roles (including the Chair of Painting and Printmaking) he helped shape KCAI pedagogy and prepare generations of contemporary artists.
Provenance: From the corporate art collection of a Kansas City based Fortune 500 company, previously acquired directly from the artist.
There is the artist's pinhole at each corner of the sheet. The sheet was attached to the back mat with archival tape that has come loose, leaving the sheet loose inside the frame. Otherwise the work is in very good condition, with no issues apparent. Not removed from the frame.
(Missouri, b. 1925)
Studio View North, 1973
Watercolor on paper
22" x 30"
Signed to the bottom right and titled to the reverse. Float-mounted behind glass in a walnut frame that measures 30" x 38".
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. Each of Niewald's paintings offered in this auction date from the 1970s, a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural observation. In addition to a career of creating exciting and influential works of his own, Niewald joined the Kansas City Art Institute's faculty in 1949, where over the course of several decades in a variety of roles (including the Chair of Painting and Printmaking) he helped shape KCAI pedagogy and prepare generations of contemporary artists.
Provenance: From the corporate art collection of a Kansas City based Fortune 500 company, previously acquired directly from the artist.
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