Lot 76
  • 76

Andrew Wyeth

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Study for On Her Knees
  • signed A. Wyeth (lower right)
  • pencil on paper
  • 24 by 17 3/4 inches
  • (61 by 45.1 cm)
  • Executed in 1975.

Provenance

Leonard E.B. Andrews, Malvern, Pennsylvania, 1986 (acquired from the artist)
Private collection, Shibuya Tokyo, Japan, 1989
Pacific Sun Trading Company, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2005
Peter Marcelle Gallery, Southampton, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2009

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museums of Art; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art (also traveled to eight venues in Japan), Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, May 1987-September 1989, no. 133, p. 197, illustrated p. 117 
New York, Adelson Galleries, Andrew Wyeth: Helga on Paper, November-December 2006, no. 50, p. 124, illustrated p. 50
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Gerald Peters Gallery, Three Generations of Wyeth, July-August 2010
Santa Barbara, California, Sullivan Goss, Andrew Wyeth: American Master, May-June 2013
Denver, Colorado, Goodwin Fine Art, Andrew Wyeth: A Survey, October-November 2015

Literature

Josef Woodard, "A Slice of Wyeth's Wolrd," Santa Barbara News-Press, May 17, 2013, S47

Condition

This work is in good condition. The sheet is hinged to the mat at the upper corners. There is a 1x1 inch anchor shaped repaired tear near the upper right corner. There is a diagonal crease at the upper left corner and a horizontal crease 2 inches up from the bottom edge.
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