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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 19, 2024 | Bonhams | New York | American Art | 24 | $****** - ****** | Self-portrait in Top Hat and Cape |
paintings
102.9 x 92.7 cm (40.5 x 36.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed " N.C. WYETH " (lower left)
Carolyn Brenneman ( née Bockius) Wyeth (1886-1973), Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, wife of the artist, by descent from the artist, 1945.
Carolyn Brenneman Wyeth (1909-1994), Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, daughter of the above, by descent from the above, 1973.
Frank E. Fowler (1946-2024) and Gay ( née Zimmermann) Fowler (1945-2022), Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, by 1995.
Private collection.
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2023.
Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings by Delaware Artists, Pupils of Howard Pyle, Members of the Society , November 1-December 17, 1927, no. 14. (as Portrait )
Wilmington, Delaware, Du Pont Building (O"Toole Offices), Exhibition of Wyeth family work , (probably) spring 1934.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Tradition , October 13-November 28, 1965, no. 5. (as Self-Portrait in a Top Hat )
Wilmington, Delaware, Jewish Federation of Delaware, First Annual Art Exhibit: Works by Eight Wyeth Family Members and Dr. Boiris Blai , March 23-27, 1966, no. 4.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, N.C. Wyeth , May 20-October 15, 1972, n.p., no. 88. (as Self-Portrait with Top Hat and Cape )
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, A Family Paints Itself , February 9-May 13, 1973.
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, American Self-Portraits, 1670-1973 , February 1-March 15, 1974, pp. 144-45, no. 65, illustrated, and elsewhere. (as Self-Portrait with Top Hat and Cape )
Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Howard Pyle and the Wyeths: Four Generations of American Imagination , September 1-October 23, 1983, pp. 58, 79, 96, no. 33, illustrated, and elsewhere. (as Self-Portrait with Top Hat and Cape )
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, N.C. Wyeth Experiment and Invention 1925-1935 , June 3-September 4, 1995, pp. 8, 24, no. 3, illustrated, and elsewhere.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art, N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives , June 22-September 15, 2019, pp. 107, 170-71, 210, pl. 49, illustrated as a frontispiece, and elsewhere.
"Society Folk Throng to Private Showing of Delaware Artists," Wilmington Morning News , Wilmington, Delaware, November 2, 1927, p. 6.
Wilmington Every Evening , Wilmington, Delaware, November 2, 1927, p. 5.
Scribner"s Magazine , New York, vol. LXXXIV, no. 2, August 1928, n.p., illustrated as a frontispiece. (as A self-portrait )
R. Cooper, "Famous Artist Praises Stevenson," The Spotlight , March 13, 1931, p. 1, illustrated.
D. Herbert, "The Wyeths of Chadds Ford," The Easton Star-Democrat , Easton, Maryland, September 7, 1951, no. 51, p. 17.
H.C. Pitz, The Brandywine Tradition , New York, 1968, n.p., illustrated.
D. Allen, D. Allen Jr, N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations, and Murals , New York, 1972, pp. 278, 334.
"N.C. Wyeth Exhibit is Opened at Brandywine River Museum," Delaware County Daily Times , Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1972, no. 220, p. 2, illustrated.
J. Delaney, ed., The House of Scribner, 1905-1930, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Documentary Series , Detroit, 1997, vol. 16, p. 105, illustrated. (as self-portrait )
A. Rockey, "Art Exhibit Features Pyle, Wyeths," The Daily Tar Heel , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 23, 1984, vol. 91, no. 139, p. 6. (as Self-Portrait With Top Hat and Cape )
D. Michaelis, N.C. Wyeth: A Biography , New York, 1998, pp. 429, 550, illustrated. (as Self Portrait in Top Hat and Cape )
D. Michaelis, "Shadow of the Patriarchy," Vanity Fair , New York, August 1998, pp. 144-45, no. 456, illustrated. (as Self Portrait in Top Hat and Cape )
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II , Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 810-12, 908, no. P29 (134), illustrated.
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF LINDA L. BEAN Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
Self-portrait in Top Hat and Cape
signed " N.C. WYETH " (lower left)
oil on canvas
40 1/2 x 36 1/2 in. (102.9 x 92.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1927.
