Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Jamie Wyeth
Surf Watchers
Auction Closed
May 20, 10:17 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jamie Wyeth
b.1946
Surf Watchers
signed James Wyeth (lower left)
watercolor on paper
26½ by 40 in.
67.3 by 101.6 cm.
Executed in 1976.
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1980)
Acquired by descent from the above to the present owners
Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1980)
Acquired by descent from the above to the present owners
Surf Watchers depicts the artist’s wife, Phyllis Mills Wyeth, leaning out of the Dutch door at the front of their house on Monhegan Island in Maine, where the work was painted.