Lot 81
  • 81

Andrew Wyeth

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Barn Lamp
  • signed Andrew Wyeth (lower left)
  • watercolor with scratching out on paper, laid down on board
  • 12 1/2 by 16 1/2 inches
  • (31.8 by 41.9 cm)
  • Executed in 1955.

Provenance

Peggy and David Steine (acquired from the artist)
By descent from the above to the present owner

Exhibited

Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art, The Collection of Peggy and David Steine, May 18 - June 15, 1969
Nashville, Tennessee, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, An Enduring Legacy: Art of the Americas from Nashville Collections, April 8, 2001 - March 10, 2002

Literature

David Steine and Gudmund Vigtel, The Collection of Peggy and David Steine, Atlanta, Georgia, 1969
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, An Enduring Legacy: Art of the Americas from Nashville Collections, Nashville, 2001, no. 45a, illustrated

Condition

Watercolor with scratching out on paper, laid down on board. Surface in generally good condition, a small area of left over paper adhered to upper left edge.
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Catalogue Note

The present work depicts Adam Johnson's shed, with a Keorsene lamp hanging in the open doorway.