Help with painting.

[GibH]

I found this painting signed W Richter. I thought it was Wilmer Richter, but the pieces I've found online are signed Wilmer S Richter. Interestingly enough, I found someone asking about the same picture on sammler.com searching google images. It is 27 x 22" canvas. Any help would be appreaciated.

 

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[tamrock]

It's worth more then 15 bucks is all I'll add. I'ts very nice.

 

[GibH]

Hmm, I found a discussion board where a few people describe this picture. I'm wondering if it wasn't mass produced somehow.

http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/bulletin.aspx?searchtype=DISCUSS&artist=100015

 

[bdsawyer]

Hmm, I found a discussion board where a few people describe this picture. I'm wondering if it wasn't mass produced somehow.

Wilmer Richter - Discussion/bulletin boards for Wilmer Siegfried Richter

Especially since the same painting can be found, I would also tend to believe this is a mass produced painting sold in department stores as decorator pieces. Wish that wasnt the case but it appears to be so.

 

[gino22]

The even grain of the canvas and muted colors point toward reproduction.

A lot of people make this mistake. Here's how easy it is to make a convincing painting reproduction today:

The original painting is photographed, and the photograph of the painting is printed onto canvas (today this can be done nicely with fairly inexpensive inkjet printers). The canvas is then stretched onto wooden bars and occasionally touched up with paint or varnish to simulate the real thing. Reproductions of this kind are extremely common, far more common than original pieces at resale.

Depending on how much paint and varnish are used to touch up the canvas, it can be very difficult even for a trained eye to make the distinction.

Yours looks like a straight print though, not seeif any paint on the canvas but would need to see better pics to make the distinction. Multiple people asking about the same one is a bad sign too, unless you happen to have the original.

 

[GibH]

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[GibH]

Definitely a repro, I'd say probably from the 70's or 80's. I've read people from Europe asking about it as well.

Cheap mistake, I'm sure I'll get my money back on it next time I have a yard sale.