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Lot 99
  • 99

Norman Rockwell 1894-1978

Estimate
125,000 - 175,000 USD
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Description

  • Norman Rockwell
  • Barbershop Quartet
  • signed Norman Rockwell, l.r.; also inscribed Norman Rockwell/Mead Schaeffer/Fairfax Ayres, l.r. and 'N'oubliez jamais le bon Dieu, l.c.
  • charcoal on paper
  • 34 3/4 by 25 in.
  • (88.3 by 63.5 cm)
  • Executed in 1936.

Provenance

Jack Solomon, Jr. (owner of Arts International, Ltd. and Circle Gallery, Ltd., Chicago)
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1974

Literature

Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, New York, 1972, p. 64 
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. 1, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. C357a, p. 135, illustrated 

Catalogue Note

The present work is a study for Norman Rockwell's September 26, 1936 cover for the Saturday Evening Post.