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Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

N.C. Wyeth

The King's Henchman

Auction Closed

November 21, 09:32 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

N.C. Wyeth

1882 - 1945


The King's Henchman

signed N.C. Wyeth (lower right)

oil on canvas

42 ¼ by 48 in.

107 by 122 cm.

Executed in 1927.

Steinway & Sons, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

CBS Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1958)

Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 1997, lot 247 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

The Saturday Evening Post, 12 November 1927, p. 92-93, illustrated in color

Good Housekeeping, February 1928, p. 170, illustrated

Asheville, NC, Visions of Romance, Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 2000, no. 36, p. 34, illustrated in color

Tennessee, Knoxville Museum of Art, Distant Lands: The Art of the Story: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 2001, no. 49, p. 47, illustrated in color

New York, The Dahesh Museum of Art, Stories to Tell: Masterworks from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 2006, no. 89, p. 77, illustrated

Malibu, Pepperdine University, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Illustrating Modern Life: The Golden Age of American Illustration from the Kelly Collection, 2013, p. 105, illustrated in color

Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 145

Christine M. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. C63, p. 658, illustrated in color