Lot 127
  • 127

Jamie Wyeth

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jamie Wyeth
  • Corbett House
  • signed Jamie Wyeth (lower left)
  • watercolor on paper
  • 20 1/2 by 28 1/2 inches
  • (52.1 by 72.4 cm)
  • Executed in 1973.

Provenance

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1981
Acquired from above by the present owner

Condition

In good condition; scattered drops of excess watercolor on the background, though difficult to ascertain if it was the intention of the artist.
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Catalogue Note

The house depicted in the present work is on Monhegan Island, Maine and was built in 1908. It sits on the path out to Burnt Head, one of the three cliffs on the eastern side of Monhegan Island. Helen Corbett bought it in 1953 and owned it until 1980.