Sale 9534
New York
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29 November 2000
Price realised
USD 193,000
Estimate
Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917) Grist Mill signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower left) watercolor on paper laid down on stretched paper 20 x 281/8 in. (50.8 x 71.4 cm.)
Provenance
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York. Hal B. Wallis, California. Christie's, New York, 25 May 1989, lot 406. Acquired by the present owner from the above.
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The present work, painted in 1968, depicts Brinton's Mill on the artist's property in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. This watercolor will be included in Betsy James Wyeth's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
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