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Lot 105
  • 105

Norman Rockwell 1894 - 1978

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Norman Rockwell
  • Housewife at Tea Break
  • signed Norman Rockwell, l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 13 by 13 in.
  • (33 by 33 cm)
  • Painted circa 1958. The Brooke Bond Foods Company used this painting as an advertisement for its Red Rose Tea label.

Provenance

Commissioned by Brooke Bond Foods Company, 1958
Acquired by the present owner, 1984

Literature

The Saturday Evening Post, January 9, 1960, illustrated as Red Rose Tea advertisement
Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist's Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, p. 182, illustrated
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. 1, p. 299, no. A105, illustrated