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Property from an Important American Collector

Andrew Wyeth

Walking in Her Cape Coat

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collector

Andrew Wyeth

1917 - 2009


Walking in Her Cape Coat

signed A. Wyeth (upper left)

watercolor, drybrush and pencil on paper

23 by 28 ¾ in.

58.4 by 73.0 cm.

Executed in 1979.


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

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

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

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

Acquired in 2006 by the present owner

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. 169, pp. 142 and 198, 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

Louisville, Speed Art Museum, Wyeth: Three Generations, June - August 1998, no. 56, p. 12 (titled Study for Walking in Her Cape Coat)

Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum; Nashville, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures: An Intimate Study, May 2002 - January 2003

Lafayette, University of Louisiana, University Art Museum; Canton Museum of Art and Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures, April 2004 - January 2005, no. 51, pp. 72 and 97, illustrated in color

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