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Property from an Important Private Collection, Houston

Andrew Wyeth

Cider and Pork

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May 20, 08:59 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, Houston

Andrew Wyeth

1917 - 2009


Cider and Pork

signed Andrew Wyeth (lower left)

watercolor and pencil on paper

21 ¾ by 28 ⅞ in.

55.2 by 73.3 cm.

Executed in 1956.


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

Ford B. Draper, Wilmington, Delaware

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above on 10 November 1960)

Amanda K. Berls, New York (acquired from the above on 22 April 1963 and until at least 1980)

Private Collection

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York (acquired in 1986)

Acquired from the above in February 1987 by the present owner

Wilmington, Delaware Art Center, Andrew Wyeth, 1957

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Andrew Wyeth: Recent Paintings, 1958, no. 7

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 into 1966, 1966-67, no. 92, p. 56 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Andrew Wyeth, 1970, no. 29, pp. 80-81, illustrated

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Art of Andrew Wyeth, 1973, no. 19, p. 23, illustrated in color 

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Harvest Exhibition, 1974

New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, A Tribute to American Realism: The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion, 1976, illustrated

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Olsons and Kuerners, 1976-77, no. 21, p. 187, illustrated

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion, 1980, no. 62, p. 48, illustrated; p. 60

Richard Meryman, Andrew Wyeth, Boston, 1968, p. 62, illustrated in color; p. 171

Thomas Hoving, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: A Conversation with Andrew Wyeth, Boston, 1976, no. 21, p. 187, illustrated

Betsy James Wyeth, Wyeth at Kuerners, Boston, 1976, p. 49, illustrated in color; p. 318

David Cateforis, Rethinking Andrew Wyeth, Berkeley, 2014, p. 27, fig. 1.10, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Reynolda House Museum of American Art (and traveling), Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth, 2025-26, p. 70, illustrated in color; p. 154