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Property from a Private Seattle Collection

Andrew Wyeth

The Observatory

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Seattle Collection

Andrew Wyeth

1917 - 2009


The Observatory

signed Andrew Wyeth (upper left)

watercolor and pencil on paper

30 by 22 in.

76.2 by 55.9 cm.

Executed in 1978.


The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York

Galerie de Tours, Carmel, California

Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1985)

Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 2014, lot 13 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Main Store (and traveling), Andrew Wyeth, 1978, illustrated, no. 75, n.p., illustrated