Ferdinand Burgdorff (1881-1975)
Winter Water
signed 'Ferdinand Burgdorff' (lower left) and titled on an exhibition label (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
40 x 46 in.
framed 43 x 49 1/4 in.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Maxwell Galleries Ltd., San Francisco, California.
Private collection, San Francisco, California.
Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, California Paintings, February 7, 1990, lot 1045.
Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, American & California Paintings and Sculpture, December 12, 1996, lot 3364.
Private Trust, Santa Barbara, California.

Exhibited
San Francisco, The Bohemian Club, 1939.

A note affixed to the reverse reads: Along the Pacific Coast in the region of Point Lobos and Cypress Point there are interesting rocky shores. Here the ocean washes onto the rough shore in most interesting form in the winter months or in January, February, and March.

Oil on the textured side of Masonite. Surface dirt - could benefit from a clean. Under UV examination, small area of retouch along upper center edge to address frame abrasion - otherwise clean. Thick impasto in the sea foam.

Presented in a thin gilt frame - likely original.