Lot 108
  • 108

Andrew Wyeth b. 1917

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • The Green Dory
  • signed Andrew Wyeth, l.r.
  • watercolor on paper

  • 15 by 21 in.
  • (38.1 by 53.3 cm)
  • Executed in 1940 in Port Clyde, Maine.

Provenance

Private Collection, Cumberland Centre, Maine, 1941
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, September 27, 1996, lot 246, illustrated in color
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, Watercolors By Andrew Wyeth, November-December 1940
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Twentieth International Exhibition of Watercolors, July-October 1941
Marietta, Georgia, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, The Wyeths: N.C., Andrew and Jamie, February-May 1998

Condition

Good condition, unframed: hinged along top edge in two places, four extra pieces of Japanese paper attached to top edge. Some faint staining at edges.
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