N. C. WYETH | Untitled (Country Gentleman Cover)

The artist
Private collection (probably gift from the above)
By descent to the present owner

The Country Gentleman, vol. 88, no. 9, March 2, 1918, cover illustration
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 257
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. I693, p. 360, illustrated 

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes, Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work is in beautiful condition. The painting is clean and lightly varnished. The canvas is unlined and still on its original stretcher. The paint layer is very healthy. There is a tiny group of retouches in the shadow of the horse in the lower center. There is a very thin line of retouches between the hooves in the lower center. There are a few tiny dots of retouching in the sky, and one thin line of retouches immediately to the left of the horse's head addressing a thin crack in the pigment. The condition is particularly good, and the work should be hung as is.
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