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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 28 | $****** - ****** | PERPETUAL CARE | |||
Dec 3, 1998 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 267 | $****** - ****** | Perpetual care |
Works on Paper
73.7 x 59.1 cm (29.02 x 23.27 in)
drybrush on paper
signed Andrew Wyeth (lower right)
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic C. Dumaine, Jr., Weston, Massachusetts, 1962 (acquired from the artist)
By descent (sold: Sotheby’s, New York, December 3, 1998, lot 267)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Water Colors and Drawings, November-December 1962, no. 138, p. 16, illustrated p. 74
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966, October 1966-April 1967, no. 164, p. 80, illustrated p. 81
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, July-September 1970, no. 130, p. 191, illustrated p. 190
San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Art of Andrew Wyeth, June-September 1973
Tokyo, Japan, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Andrew Wyeth, April-June 1974
London, England, Royal Academy of Arts, Andrew Wyeth, June-August 1980
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, A Time to Mourn, January-May 1981
Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: Something of the Artist, July-October 1988
Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: Maine Paintings, May-October 2002
Raoul Tunley, “The Wonderful World of Andrew Wyeth,” Woman’s Day, August 1963, illustrated p. 34
Richard Meryman, Andrew Wyeth, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968, pp. 104, 173, illustrated p. 116
Ralph Brem, “Andrew Wyeth – Against the Tide of Op and Pop,” Sunday Roto, The Pittsburgh Press, October 13, 1968, p. 40
Katharine Kuh, “Why Wyeth?,” Saturday Review, October 26, 1968, vol. 51, no. 43, p. 26
A.R. Ammons, “For Andrew Wyeth,” The New York Times Book Review, October 27, 1968, p. 56
Philip Isaacson, “Wyeth: the next best thing,” Maine Sunday Telegram, October 27, 1968
“Gift book deluxe,” Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, November 17, 1968, n.p.
North Shore, Perpertual [sic] Care, July 11, 1970, n.p.
Lee Sheridan, “Wyeth observes effects of nature on world,” Daily News, Springfield, Massachusetts, July 20, 1970, n.p.
Mizue: A Monthly Review of the Fine Arts, no. 820, 1973, illustrated n.p.
Aubrey Cannon, “Going in Style, The Role of Fashion in Ancient Burial Customs,” The Sciences, vol. 31, no. 6, November/December 1991, p. 38
R. Baird Shuman, ed., Great American Writers, Tarrytown, New York, 2002, n.p, illustrated
Audrey Lewis, Nancy Weekly, et al., Exalted Nature: The Real and Fantastic World of Charles E. Burchfield, Buffalo, New York, 2014, n.p.
signed Andrew Wyeth (lower right)
drybrush on paper
29 by 23 1/4 inches
(73.7 by 59.1 cm)
Executed in 1961.
