Top-100 artists:
We use our proprietary AI - LiveArt Estimate™ to calculate current market value for each artwork. Based on this data LiveArt is able to provide numerous insights into artist and artwork financial performance, including:
See the measure of artist investment performance relative to risk. A higher ratio suggests better risk-adjusted returns, indicating more consistent performance with less risk.
Explore the most prolific periods in an artist's career based on artwork production volume and current market value. It also segments these periods by category, offering insights into when the most valuable pieces were created in each category.
Free to sign up. No credit card required.
| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 21, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 29 | $****** - ****** | LITTLE BOY WRITING LETTER | |||
Dec 1, 1988 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 327 | Estimates not disclosed | Love letters |
paintings
66.4 x 58.7 cm (26.14 x 23.11 in)
oil on canvas
signed Norman/Rockwell (lower right)
Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1920
Dr. H.L. Houghton, Fort Worth, Texas
Mrs. Hulda Houghton, Fort Worth, Texas (his wife, by descent)
Thomas C. Potts, 1964 (her son, by descent)
Private collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 1988, lot 327)
Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York
Tableau Fine Art Group, Inc., Florida
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1996
The Saturday Evening Post, January 17, 1920, cover illustration (©SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved)
Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, illustrated fig. 128, p. 80
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, illustrated pp. 75, 272 (as Love Letters)
Dr. Donald Stoltz and Marshall L. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and ‘The Saturday Evening Post:’ May 1916-July 1928, vol. I, New York, 1976, p. 53, illustrated p. 54
Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, illustrated fig. I-135, p. 38 (as Pen Pals or Love Letters)
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. C215, p. 83, illustrated p. 82
Jan Cohn, Covers of “The Saturday Evening Post:" Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 96
signed Norman/Rockwell (lower right)
oil on canvas
26 1/8 by 23 1/8 inches
(66.4 by 58.7 cm)
Painted in 1920.
