Sigurd Wendland: Liggende kvinde, olie på lærred, sign på bagsiden S. Wendland '89. 115 x 146 cm. Det Konservative Folkepartis formand, Mona Juul, sælger sit maleri af Sigurd Wendland, som har hængt en årrække på hendes kontor på Christiansborg.
Pengene fra salget går ubeskåret til Værestedets Venner, som er en forening, der gennem frivilligt arbejde, indsamling og omsorg støtter Værestedet i Aarhus.

The painting was created in a series of works with this model, Carola. It was painted with a model based on nature in 1990 in my studio on Schöneberger Hauptstraße 8. David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop lived in the house opposite. This time was marked by the upheaval of squatting, punk music and sexual libertinage, with extreme appearance in clothing, hairstyle and make-up. The sitter Carola, worked for a large international academic publishing house. In her free time she also appeared as the only woman in a gay burlesk show and was my main model with her friend for a while. Her friend, lawyer and general counsel at the University of the Arts was very proud that I used her as a model. The first exhibition of the picture was in Amsterdam in 1990 at the Drij Gratien Gallery. A whole bus full of fans traveled to the vernissage. However, when Carola's boyfriend saw the pictures I had painted with her, he immediately left the gallery and their relationship ended. At this time, Carola modeled for a number of oil paintings and watercolors of different sizes. Three large pictures were created, one of which hangs in Amsterdam today, but one and many small ones and sketches are still in my archive. Of course, we know similar depictions of women from Gustav Courbet, Egonn Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Georg Baselitz. My intention with this picture was to show a self-confident woman who dares to let herself be painted as she is, as she feels and acts. Not as an object but as a contemporary document of the declining West Berlin and its attitude to life. As the French call an orgasm La Petite mort, the little death, I wanted to depict this orgiastic life, always alternating between euphoria and suicide, in what was then West Berlin. Værestedet i Aarhus (Jægergårdsgade) er et anonymt fristed for udsatte voksne, der har psykiske og sociale udfordringer, eksempelvis afhængighed af euforiserende stoffer og alkohol, ensomhed og hjemløshed.