Modern Day Auction

Modern Day Auction

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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Norman Rockwell

Boy at Barber

Session begins in

November 19, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Bid

250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Norman Rockwell

1894 - 1978


Boy at Barber

signed Norman Rockwell (lower right)

oil on canvas

27 by 22 in.

68.6 by 55.9 cm.

Executed in 1918.


This work will be included as an addendum work in the Project Norman database created by the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Private Collection (acquired circa 1970)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

The Saturday Evening Post, 10 August 1918, illustrated on the cover

Thomas S. Buechner, Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator, New York, 1970, no. 109, p. 68, illustrated (on the Post cover)

Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, no. 263, pp. 207 and 271, illustrated (on the Post cover)

A Visit with Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post, vol. I, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 27-28, illustrated in color (on the Post cover)

Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers, New York, 1979, pp. 46 and 72, illustrated in color (on the Post cover)

Mary Moline, A Chronological Catalogue of the Artist's Work 1910-1978, Philadelphia, 1979, p. 36, fig. 1-122, illustrated (on the Post cover)

Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. C202, p. 77, illustrated (on the Post cover)

Beryl Frank, Norman Rockwell's American Family, New York, 1989, p. 16, illustrated in color (on the Post cover)

Jan Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, p. 81, illustrated in color (on the Post cover)

Margaret Rockwell, Norman Rockwell’s Growing Up in America, New York, 1998, p. 18 and 119, illustrated in color (on the Post cover)

Richard Halpern, Norman Rockwell, The Underside of Innocence, Chicago, 2006, pp. 62-63

Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Telling Stories - Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, New York, 2010, no. 14, p. 46, illustrated in color (on the Post cover)