Lot 49
  • 49

ANDREW WYETH | Painting the Sloop

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Painting the Sloop
  • signed Andrew Wyeth (lower right)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 14 3/4 by 21 3/4 inches
  • (37.5 by 55.2 cm)
  • Executed in 1948.

Provenance

The artist
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1949

Exhibited

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Newman Gallery, Andrew Wyeth and the Wyeth Family, December 1965

Condition

The sheet is hinged to the support at two places along reverse of top edge. Some pigments appear to be slightly faded and there is a small crease at lower left corner.
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Catalogue Note

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