$457,000
N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth (American, 1882-1945) And They Did Their Trading from the Top of Battlemented Walls , 1905 Signed and dated "N.C. WYETH /-1905-" l.r. Oil on canvas, 38 x 26 in. (96.5 x 66.0 cm), framed. Condition: Craquelure in areas of heaviest impasto, with small area of paint loss to impasto at center top, verso possibly coated with resin or similar. Provenance: Descended within a New England family. Literature: Arthur E. McFarlane, "An Antiente Greate Companie," in Saturday Evening Post, 178, no. 20 (Nov. 11, 1905), illustration, 2. Douglas Allen & Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, (Bonanza Books, New York, 1972), p. 30; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume One, Wyeth Foundation for American Art, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford (London: Scala Publishers Limited, 2008), cat. no. I'94 (851), p. 129. N.B. N.C. Wyeth completed this painting in 1905 as a commission for the Saturday Evening Post. It is one of four illustrations done by Wyeth to accompany a story by Arthur E. McFarland, titled "An Antiente Greate Companie," about the Hudson Bay Trading Company, which appeared in Volume 178, No. 20, on November 11, 1905. In a letter from N.C. Wyeth to his mother, dated October 1, 1905, the artist referred specifically to the painting at hand, saying "I have just completed a huge picture of the Cree Indians trading over the stockade with the early French, for th
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-01-28
