Lot 19
  • 19

Andrew Wyeth 1917-2009

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Christina's Bedroom
  • signed Andrew Wyeth, l.l., and titled Christina's Bedroom on the reverse
  • watercolor on paper
  • 21 1/2 by 29 1/2 in.
  • (54.6 by 74.9 cm)
  • Executed in 1947.

Provenance

Private collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947
By descent in the family to the present owner 

Exhibited

Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art; Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, July-September 1951
Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, September-October 1951
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons, October 1976-February 1977, no. 71, illustrated

Literature

Jean Bergantini Grillo, "Case of the Vanishing Curator," Daily News, New York, October 17, 1976, illustrated
Betsy James Wyeth, Christina's World, Boston, Massachusetts, 1982

Condition

Good condition. Unframed: matburn along upper, right and left edges, paper buckles slightly.
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Catalogue Note

This scene depicts a room on the second floor of the Olson's house. The window also appears in Wyeth's work Weatherside.