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March 5, 07:57 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
N. C. WYETH
1882 - 1945
THE HUSKING BEE
signed N.C. WYETH (lower right); also titled "THE HUSKING BEE" and signed again (on the reverse)
oil on panel
33 ¼ by 25 inches
(84.5 by 63.5 cm)
Painted in 1941.
Woman's Day Magazine
William Serio
Private collection, California (by descent; sold: Christie's, New York, May 23, 2001, lot 89)
Private collection (acquired at the above sale; sold: Christie's, New York, December 5, 2013, lot 120)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Woman's Day, October 1946, cover illustration
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 279
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. I.1308, pp. 587-88, illustrated
The present work was originally conceived as a cover illustration for Progressive Farmer magazine but was never published.