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March 5, 07:49 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
N. C. WYETH
1882 - 1945
WHEN HE COMES HE WILL RULE OVER THE WHOLE WORLD
signed N.C. WYETH (lower right)
oil on canvas
44 by 32 inches
(111.8 by 81.3 cm)
Painted in 1913.
The artist
Louis Seaber (gift from the above)
By descent
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2012
Henry Van Dyke, "The Lost Boy," Harper's Monthly Magazine, vol. CXXVIII, no. 763, December 1913, frontispiece illustration
Henry Van Dyke, The Lost Boy, New York, 1914, frontispiece illustration
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Story of Jesus Christ, Boston, Massachusetts, 1926, cover label illustration
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 259
Mike Tressler, "Lost N.C. Wyeth Painting Turns Up," News Journal, August 23, 2001, section B10, p. A1+
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. I.490, p. 283, illustrated
Greenville, Delaware, Somerville Manning Gallery, N.C. Wyeth: Painter and Illustrator, June-September 2019
Please note this lot is accompanied by a copy of Henry van Dyke's The Lost Boy for which the present worked served as the frontispiece illustration.