
Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
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
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