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NORMAN ROCKWELL | WHAT DO YOU TEACH A BOY OF TWELVE?

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November 19, 04:22 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

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NORMAN ROCKWELL

1894 - 1978

WHAT DO YOU TEACH A BOY OF TWELVE?


signed Norman/Rockwell (lower right) and inscribed Texas Nat'l Bank (in the lower margin beneath the mat) 

pencil on paper

image: 11 ½ by 11 ¼ inches (29.2 by 28.6 cm)

sheet: 14 ¼ by 12 ⅜ inches (36.2 by 31.4 cm)

Executed in 1955.

Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, Texas (acquired directly from the artist)

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. A795, p. 551, illustrated

The present work was originally used as an advertisement for Texas Commerce Bank.