"Isolated Tree"...

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"Isolated Tree", Peter Schmidt, watercolor, 1975-79

(Provenance Unknown, extracted from Iceland exhibit photo, 1978-9)

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The Burning Candle...

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Peter Schmidt, watercolor, 1975-79

(Provenance Unknown, extracted from Iceland exhibit photo, 1978-9)

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The other house, later...

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Peter Schmidt, watercolor, 1975-79

(Provenance Unknown, extracted from Iceland exhibit photo, 1978-9)

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Painted at the window in his studio, at night...

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"Teabowl (the first day of Spring)"...

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"Teabowl (the first day of Spring)", Peter Schmidt, watercolor, 1975-79

(Provenance Unknown, extracted from Iceland exhibit photo, 1978-9)

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Eggert Petursson sent me gallery photographs of works hanging on the walls, from Peter's Iceland exhibitions in 1978 and 1979. I have tried my best to extract images of the works shown at these exhibits, in an effort to continue to grow our catalogue. I will present these images over the next few weeks. Due to size limitations (many were quite small) some are better than others. All are beautiful examples of Peter's work.

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If anyone of you own these works and would like to donate

images of better quality, please contact http://www.peterschmidtweb.com/

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Taking Tiger Mountain 26 of 1500

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"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #1028 of 1500

(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

All of the Tiger Mountain prints in our collection, to date, have been posted. Please contact me at: info@PeterSchmidtWeb.com or PeterSchmidtWeb@aol.com if you would like to have an image of yours added to this catalogue.

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Drawn by Peter Schmidt, 1950...

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"Ernest Cross", by Peter Schmidt, pencil drawing, 1950

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"The attached pencil drawing of me was done at the Lenton Hurst site of Nottingham University in England on 13th October 1950. We were both in the army doing national service, and were attending an arts short course. Peter was a sergeant, in the Education Corps, I think. I remember him telling me at that time that he had completed a sculpture just before coming to Nottingham. It had been carved out of a block of salt, and was called Lot's Wife. I thought the drawing had been lost until last year, when it surfaced during our change of house. "
Ernest Cross

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Many thanks to Mr. Cross for sharing this story and this very cherished momento.

This drawing is the oldest example of Peter's work we have in our raisonne catalogue.

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Taking Tiger Mountain 25 of 1500

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"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #1025 of 1500
(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

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Before and After Science original watercolors...

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Photo of "Four Years", and "Road to the Crater" original watercolors,

photographed during a visit with Esmee, 2007.

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Lost photo of a painting...

Found among the photos from London, 2007

Taking Tiger Mountain 25 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #1024 of 1500

(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

Taking Tiger Mountain 24 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #1023 of 1500
(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

Taking Tiger Mountain 23 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #1022 of 1500

(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

Taking Tiger Mountain 22 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #864 of 1500
(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

Peter Schmidt/Brian Eno at MOCA

TO ILLUSTRATE AND MULTIPLY: AN OPEN BOOK

(a few screen shots from the interactive page)

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Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno's rare fourth edition of "Oblique Strategies"

is part of a group exhibit in downtown Los Angeles at:

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MOCA Museum Of Contemporary Art

MOCA Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Ave.

Design Plaza G102

West Hollywood, CA 90069

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A link to the museum: http://www.moca.org/museum/moca_pdc.php
A link to the interactive page: http://www.moca.org/openbook/sequences.php

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Also featured in this exhibition are, among many, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Peter's friend Jan Voss. Jan runs a first rate art book shop in Amsterdam called Boekie Woekie. Aside from books, he also has rare prints and muliples that may be something you've been looking for. He has a copy of the catalogue from Peter Schmidt's 1995 retrospective in Iceland in the shop right now. Please check it out sometime at: http://www.boekiewoekie.com/

Taking Tiger Mountain 21 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #720 of 1500

(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

Taking Tiger Mountain 20 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #718 of 1500
(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

Taking Tiger Mountain 19 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #717 of 1500

(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

Taking Tiger Mountain 17/18 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #705 of 1500
(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

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"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #570 of 1500
(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

Taking Tiger Mountain 15/16 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #465 of 1500

(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

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"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #463 of 1500

(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

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A Peter Schmidt painting from Belgium...

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Untitled, watercolor painting, 1976-77

(Collection of and with kind permission of Yves Lorson)

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Yves bought this painting in 1979 in Antwerp

at a Peter Schmidt/Brian Eno exhibition.

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Taking Tiger Mountain, 13/14 of 1500

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #299 0f 1500
(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

"Taking Tiger Mountain", Peter Schmidt, 1974, lithograph, #298 0f 1500

(Collection of and with kind permission of John Fitzpatrick)

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Photographs of fourteen of Peter's "Taking Tiger Mountain" prints have been donated by John Fitzpatrick. PeterSchmidtWeb now has assembled a total of twenty six of these portraits of Brian Eno for your perusal. I'll be adding one or two here at the blog every few days, and ultimately adding them all to the catalogue, found at: http://www.peterschmidtweb.com/
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We are no longer making a brick, but rather building a wall.

As the days grow longer...

I'd like to wish all the friends, family, supporters and visitors of PeterSchmidtWeb happiness, love, light and magic, through the end of this year and throughout the next.

Another...Peter Schmidt

Another piece photographed during my trip to London last winter...

Jasia Reichardt's Peter Schmidt painting...

Untitled(Jasia's Painting)by Peter Schmidt, acrylic on canvas, 1968

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Jasia Reichardt was an early supporter and friend of Peter's. She is the curator of the Themerson Archives, which can be found here: http://www.themersonarchive.com/. Franciszka and Stephan Themerson were very active in the early days of Warsaw's avant garde film community, and later, after emigrating to London in 1948, in publishing with their Gaberbocchus Press, specializing in illustrated books for children. Peter was friends with them, and one of his "Electrostatic Portraits" is of Stephan. Jasia is very well known and regarded in London's art scene and has had a great interest in cybernetics through the years. She was the curator of the ground breaking exhibition "Cybernetic Serendipity" held at the ICA in 1968, of which Peter was the musical adivsor, and Franciszka Themerson was the designer. The exhibit toured the United States in 1969. She wrote the analytical introduction for Peter's exhibit of Autobiographical Monoprints at Lisson Gallery in 1970, and is also the sublect of one of the "Electrostatic Portraits".

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I visited with Jasia and her partner Nick Wadley at their home in London last winter and took this picture. She was a charming host, and gave me unfettered access to all of her collection of Peter's books and works. Her dedication to the Themerson's and her support have been very important and inspirations for me to follow in establishing Peter Schmidt's archive.

Rediscovered Peter Schmidt works...

I've come across several pictures of Peter's work taken in London while visiting with Peter's family a year ago. These were inadvertantly overlooked, when assembling http://www.peterschmidtweb.com/ and never added to the archive. There are some better pictures of some of the works already in the catalogue. They'll be posted to the blog over the coming weeks, and added to the website sometime early next year. Also found were many pictures from Peter's self published books, "A Meeting With Kali", and "Sketchmaps".