Lot 23
  • 23

Andrew Wyeth

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Cape Forchu Light Station, Nova Scotia
  • signed Andrew Wyeth (upper right)
  • watercolor on paper mounted on board
  • 21 1/2 by 29 3/4 in.
  • 54.6 by 75.57 cm.
  • Executed in 1960.

Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Henry Sage Goodwin, Avon, Connecticut, by 1962
Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
John H. Surovek, Palm Beach, Florida 
Thomas Veilleux, Farmington, Maine, by 2006

Exhibited

Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Gallery, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors and Drawings, November-December 1962, no. 83, p. 13 (as Cape Forchu)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Drybrush, Drawings, 1938 into 1966, October 1966-June 1967, no. 151, p. 76 (as Cape Forchu Light)
New Britain, Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut Collects, October, 1967
Charlotte, North Carolina, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Andrew Wyeth:  Watercolors, October-November, 2004
Portland, Maine, Tom Veilleux Gallery, 20th Century American Masters, August, 2006
Philadelphia, 33rd Street Armory, US Artists, 33rd Street Armory, October, 2006
Portland, Maine, Tom Veilleux Gallery, Andrew Wyeth & Jamie Wyeth, August, 2007

Condition

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