Andrew Wyeth

Sparks

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Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the National Arts Program Foundation

Andrew Wyeth

(1917 - 2009)

Sparks

signed with the initial W (upper right); titled (on the reverse)

tempera on panel

44 by 47 ¾ in.

111.8 by 121.3 cm.

Executed in 2001.

The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.

Leonard Andrews, Malvern, Pennsylvania (acquired directly from the artist in 2001)

Acquired by bequest from the above by the present owner

Paula Shulak, “Mill an Inspiration for Wyeth’s Genius,” Greenville Community News, August 2001, p. 15

John Wilmerding, Signs of the Artist: Signature and Self-Expression in American Paintings, New Haven, 2003, p. 188, illustrated in color

Laura Beech, “International Fine Art is Steeped in the Classics,” Antiques & the Arts Online, 28 November 2006 (online)

Pamela Polston, “Looking Up, Looking Down – With Works by Three Wyeths, the Shelburne Museum Invites Viewers to Shift Perspectives,” Seven Days, Burlington, 14 August 2013

Exh. Cat., Chadds Ford, Brandywine River Museum, Andrew Wyeth’s Ides of March: The Making of a Masterpiece, 2013, pp. 70 and 73, fig. 48, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Denver Art Museum, Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio, 2015, p. 171

Karen Baumgartner, Andrew Wyeth: People and Places, Chadds Ford, 2017, p. 95, illustrated in color

Vermont, Shelburne Museum, Wyeth Vertigo, 2013, pl. 24, pp. 56-57, illustrated in color

Chadds Ford, Brandywine River Museum and Seattle Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect, 2017-18, pl. 108, p. 225, illustrated in color