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Property of an Important New York Collector

Andrew Wyeth

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Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important New York Collector

Andrew Wyeth

1917 - 2009


From the Back

signed A. Wyeth (upper right)

watercolor, drybrush and pencil on paper

23 ¾ by 18 ¾ in.

60.3 by 47.6 cm.

Executed in 1984.


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

Private Collection, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (acquired in 1984)

Leonard E.B. Andrews, Malvern, Pennsylvania (acquired from the above in 1986)

Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the above in 1989)

Pacific Sun Trading Company, Wellesley, Massachusetts (acquired from the above in 2005)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

David Cateforis, ed., Rethinking Andrew Wyeth, Berkeley, 2014, no. 1.25, pp. 48-49 and 188, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and Detroit Institute of Arts, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, May 1987 - December 1990, no. 196, p. 161, illustrated in color

Chadds Ford, Brandywine Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art, The Helga Pictures: Then and Now, September 1992 - October 1993

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum and New Orleans Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, January 1996 - June 1997

Naples Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth & Family: N.C., Andrew & Jamie, January - May 2006

New York, Adelson Galleries, Andrew Wyeth: Helga on Paper, November - December 2006, no. 66, pp. 98-99, illustrated in color