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NORMAN ROCKWELL | Sinatra: An American Classic (Portrait of Frank Sinatra)

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Norman Rockwell
  • Sinatra: An American Classic (Portrait of Frank Sinatra)
  • signed Norman/Rockwell (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 3/4 x 13 in.; 47.6 x 33 cm
  • Painted in 1973.

Provenance

Commissioned from the artist, 1973

Literature

Rosalind Russell, "Sinatra: An American Classic," Ladies' Home Journal, November 1973, p. 26, illustrated
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America, New York, 1975, illustrated opp. p. 319
Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist's Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, p. 208
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. S399, p. 692, illustrated
Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, New York, 2013, p. 432

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is minor frame abrasion at edges and a pindot of loss in his proper right shoulder. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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