Modern Discoveries
Modern Discoveries
Andrew Wyeth
Bone White Study
Lot Closed
March 17, 05:40 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Andrew Wyeth
1917 - 2009
Bone White Study
inscribed For Chester Davis and signed A. Wyeth (lower right)
pencil on paper
13 3/4 by 16 1/2 in.
34.9 by 41.9 cm.
Executed in 1978.
This work will be included in Betsy James Wyeth's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
Chester Davis, Port Clyde, Maine (a gift from the artist in 1978)
Private Collection, New York
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
The present work is a study for a larger watercolor entitled Bone White from 1978. The present work depicts an overturned dory along the Maine shore. The final version of Bone White was sold at Sotheby's in 2007 and is currently in a private collection.