Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 231 – 290 Richard Schmid (1934–2021) Lily Joy (2006) oil on canvas laid on board 10 × 19 inches signed lower right: Schmid 2006 VERSO Signed, titled, dated, and “#2896” The artist wrote, “Most of the Cadmium colors here are just as they appear straight out of the tube, and using them in their full values and full saturation gave me the impact of extravagant color I wanted. All of this, along with the dance of the high key white flowers was risk taking, but made this an intriguing and powerful painting.” PROVENANCE Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2015 Private collection, Reno, Nevada LITERATURE Richard Schmid, Richard Schmid: My Still Life Art , Stove Prairie Press, 2019, pp. 210-13, illustrated $20,000–30,000 291 Richard Schmid (1934–2021) Nancy (1989) pastel on paper 23 × 18 inches signed lower right: Schmid VERSO Signed, titled, dated, and “#2237” $8,000–12,000