$195,000
Andrew Newell Wyeth (American, 1917-2009) Corn and Grist Signed "Andrew Wyeth" in ink l. l., identified and dated "1976" on a label from Nicholas Wyeth, Inc., New York, affixed to the frame backing. Watercolor on paper, sight size 21 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (54.6 x 75.0 cm), framed. Condition: Not examined out of frame. Provenance: From the collection of Howard P. Diamond, M.D., New York, a prominent nasal plastic surgeon, purchased from Nicholas Wyeth, Inc., in 1976. N.B. Andrew Wyeth was an iconic figure in American painting of the 20th century. Son and student of famed illustrator N.C. Wyeth, the young man seemed destined to follow his father's footsteps yet developed his own individual style. His father's illustrations took as subjects active figures and colorful places from around the word, while Andrew Wyeth found artistic inspiration in friends and family and his immediate surroundings of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Port Clyde, Maine. His palette, too, was limited, choosing earth-bound shades of brown, green, white, gray, and black rather than the vibrant colors of his father. Andrew Wyeth painted mainly in watercolor and tempera, and he was a master of the technique described as drybrush. In an interview with friend and Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Hoving, Wyeth explained, "I work in drybrush when my emotion gets deep enough into the subject. So I paint with a smaller brush, dip it into color, splay out the brush and bristles, squeeze out a good Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-09-23
