Lot 21
  • 21

Andrew Wyeth 1917 - 2009

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Christina's Teapot
  • signed Andrew Wyeth (upper right)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 22 3/4 by 28 3/4 inches
  • (57.8 by 73 cm)
  • Executed in 1968.

Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Levine, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1969
Holly and Arthur Magill, Greenville, South Carolina, 1979-1990
Gallet Company, Osaka, Japan
Corporate Collection, Tokyo, Japan (sold: Sotheby' s, New York, November 30, 2000, lot 104, illustrated)
Private Collection, Phoenix, Arizona, 2000 (acquired from the above sale)
Spanierman Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner, 2006

Exhibited

Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Twenty-Five Maine Paintings by Andrew Wyeth, July-September 1968
Urbana, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, March-April 1969, illustrated
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons, October 1976-November 1977, no. 111, illustrated
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Works by Andrew Wyeth from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection, September 1979-January 1989, no. 25, p. 67, illustrated in color (on extended loan)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Thomas Gilcrease Museum, Andrew Wyeth: Works on Paper from the Collection of Holly and Arthur Magill, January-April 1989
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth in Maine: Selections from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection, July-September 1989, illustrated
Nashville, Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: The Olson Saga, August-October 1996
New York, Spanierman Galleries, Maine: A Legacy in Painting, 1830 to the Present, October-November 2005, no. 79, p. 97, illustrated in color
Naples, Florida, Naples Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth & Family, January-May 2006
New York, Spanierman Modern, On Paper, November 2006-January 2007

Literature

Thomas Hoving, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth-A Conversation with Andrew Wyeth, Boston, Massachusetts, 1976, illustrated
John Canaday, "Andrew Wyeth: Rising Above the Scorn," The Art Gallery, May 1979, pp. 102-115, 126
"Works by Andrew Wyeth: The Holly and Arthur Magill Collection," The Greenville News, September 1979, p. 15E
Betsy James Wyeth, Christina's World, Boston, Massachusetts, 1982, illustrated in color
Paula Hall, "Andrew Wyeth: Purely a Personal Expression," Gilcrease Magazine of American History and Art, January 1989, pp. 1-21, illustrated

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. The paper is hinged at the upper left, upper center, and upper right.
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