Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)

King Post

Details

Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)
Wyeth, Andrew
King Post
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
21 x 29 in. (55.3 x 73.7 cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Great Neck, New York.
Sotheby's, New York, October 27, 1977, lot 227.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Exhibited

Hempstead, New York, Hofstra University, The Emily Lowe Gallery, From Francois Boucher to Walter Keane: Over Two Hundred Years of Very, Very Popular Art, July-September 1975
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth in Southern Collections, February-March 1978
Tokyo, Japan, Mitsukoshi Main Store, Andrew Wyeth, October-November 1978 (This exhibition also traveled to Sapporo, Japan, Mitsukoshi Sapporo Branch Store, November 1978; Kobe, Japan, Mitsukoshi Kobe Branch Store, November-December 1978)
Tokyo, Japan, Gallery Iida, Andrew Wyeth, December 1984

Lot Essay

This watercolor, executed in 1971, depicts the fence that enclosed the kitchen yard at Broad Cove Farm in Cushing, Maine.

This work will be included in Betsy James Wyeth's forthcoming catalogue raisonn of the artist's work.

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