Lot 98
  • 98

Andrew Wyeth

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Weather Front (Study for 'Arctic Circle')
  • signed Andrew Wyeth (lower left)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 20 by 23 inches
  • (50.8 by 58.42 cm)
  • Executed in 1996.

Provenance

Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997

Literature

David Cateforis, ed., Rethinking Andrew Wyeth, Berkeley, California, 2014, p. 190, illustrated fig. 9.9, p. 192

Condition

The sheet is hinged to the support at three places along the top edge. There is a slight distortion to the sheet and there is a 1 inch vertical scratch to the right of the weathervane that is inherent to the artist's materials. 
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in Betsy James Wyeth’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.