Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
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)
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