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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2021 | Christie's | New York | American Art | 217 | $****** - ****** | Jeff Raleigh"s Piano Solo ("Oh Lord," Jeff said prayerfully, "I wish Alice was here. Oh, I wish she could hear this...") (The Virtuoso) |
paintings
73 x 57.8 cm (28.75 x 22.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed "Norman/Rockwell" (lower right)
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above, circa 1960s.
By descent to the present owner.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts; Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; San Francisco, California, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Art Center; Indianapolis, Indiana, John Herron Art Institute; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective , February 11, 1972-April 15, 1973, p. 76, illustrated.
Osaka, Japan, Hankyu Department Store, April 4-9, 1975.
E. Ware, "Jeff Raleigh"s Piano Solo," The Saturday Evening Post , May 27, 1939, p. 17, illustrated.
Post Stories of 1939 , Boston, Massachusetts, 1940, p. 294, illustrated.
A.L. Guptill, Norman Rockwell: Illustrator , New York, 1946, n.p., no. 4, illustrated.
T. Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator , New York, 1970, p. 328, pl. 332, illustrated.
Curtis Publishing Company, Norman Rockwell Memory Album: The Best of Norman Rockwell Art and Humor from the Archives of the Curtis Publishing Company , Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, p. 115, illustrated.
Curtis Publishing Company, The Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell Review , Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, p. 95, illustrated.
M. Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist"s Work (1910-1978), Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, p. 113, fig. 2-55, illustrated.
L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue , vol. II, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, p. 763, no. S550, illustrated.
NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978)
Jeff Raleigh"s Piano Solo ("Oh Lord," Jeff said prayerfully, "I wish Alice was here. Oh, I wish she could hear this...") (The Virtuoso)
signed "Norman/Rockwell" (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (73 x 57.8 cm.)
Painted in 1939.
