Norman Rockwell

Before the Date: Girl (i) & Before the Date: Cowboy (ii): Two Works

Session begins in

November 19, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Bid

600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection

Norman Rockwell

1894 - 1978

Before the Date: Girl (i) & Before the Date: Cowboy (ii): Two Works

(i)

signed with the initials NR (lower right)

oil on canvas

34 by 16 in.

86.4 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in 1949.

(ii)

signed with the initials NR and dedicated to my friend Joe (lower right)

oil on canvas

34 by 16 in.

86.4 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in 1949.

Elayne and Russ Lindberg, Minneapolis (until February 1978)

Jose Carneiro, Rio de Janeiro (acquired by 1995)

Bonnie Lindberg, Minneapolis (acquired from the above in 1998)

Illustration House, New York, 6 November 1999, lot 29 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, nos. C450a and C450b, p. 183, illustrated

Minneapolis, Elayne Galleries, Welcome Home, 1999