Lot 76
  • 76

Andrew Wyeth b. 1917

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • A River Fog
  • signed Andrew Wyeth, l.l.
  • watercolor on paper
  • 15 1/2 by 19 1/2 in.
  • (39.4 by 49.5 cm)
  • Executed in 1950.

Provenance

Macbeth Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1950

Exhibited

New York, Macbeth Gallery, Andrew Wyeth, November-December 1950
Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art; Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, July-September 1951
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Andrew Wyeth, October-November 1953

Condition

Good condition; unframed: stretched and mounted in mat, some spots of foxing and staining.
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Catalogue Note

According to Mary Landa, this work depicts the artist's dory tied to a running line he once had on the shore at Cushing, Maine between his studio and the Wyeth's house.