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Apr - 20. Apr 2022
Title: Group of eleven sculptures, 1975-81
Price: not available
Found at Bonhams
58 auction results

William T. Wiley
Auction: 20. He had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

The thick application of paint and visible brushstrokes are typical of abstract American painting of the 1950s and early 1960s; notice that color and texture are favored over line and detail, especially in the background.

Apr - 20. This show marks his thirteenth solo exhibition with the gallery. His staged fruit are individually presented, yet harmoniously assemble into visual performances. Skulls, mirrors, and flowers are normally found in the vanitas; the presence of a nude figure, however, is less common. Apr 2022
Title: No Pressure Pleasure, 2014
Price: 4.080 USD
Found at Bonhams
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Paul Wonner

Artist

born Tucson, AZ 1920-died San Francisco, CA 2008

Born: Tucson, Arizona, United States
Died: San Francisco, California, United States

Biography: Paul Wonner's parents hired a local California artist to teach him painting while he was still in high school.

Where some artists delved into studies of abstraction, Wonner dedicated himself to the close observation of the representational world. A strong example of Bay Area figurative painting in the Spencer collection is Paul Wonner’s 1961 canvas, Figure with Flowers.
By depicting representational subject matter with a style more commonly used in purely abstract paintings, Wonner achieves a tension between figurative content and abstraction

In Studio: Two Tables Popover and Coffee, Wonner creates space through shapes found among household objects; the circle of a coffee cup, the flatness of a ruler, or the length of kitchen knife.

This painting reflects the lighting and spatial structure of the Bay Area Figurative movement yet offers foresight to his ensuing attention to the still life genre.

Paul Wonner’s stylistic shift to overt still life painting in the 1970s reasserted his fascination with the parameters of realism. Apr 2022
Title: Ambivalent Desire, 1988
Price: not available
Found at Bonhams
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Fletcher Benton
Auction: 20.

Wonner masterfully constructs his landscapes of objects, creating subtle contradictions in space to keep curiosity afloat. Skulls, mirrors, and flowers are normally found in the vanitas; the presence of a nude figure, however, is less common. Landscapes of Objects, 1966-2001, is a celebration of Wonner’s connection to Berggruen Gallery, and his work’s importance among prominent California collections.

By depicting representational subject matter with a style more commonly used in purely abstract paintings, Wonner achieves a tension between figurative content and abstraction

20/21

Wonner’s image is a combination of two subjects common is Western art: the nude and the vanitas. Apr - 20.