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ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

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09.11.2022 19:00UTC -04:00
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ID 838960
Lot 33 | ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

Day Dream

signed 'A. Wyeth' (lower left)

tempera on panel

19 x 27 1/4 in. (48.3 x 69.2 cm.)

Painted in 1980





Provenance

The Armand Hammer collection (1981).

Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2011.



Literature

"Arts Reviewed" in Connoisseur, January 1981, pp. 15-16 (illustrated).

J. Campagne, "Les 'crayons' d'Andrew Wyeth" in Nice Matin, 1 January 1981 (illustrated in color).

"Lettre d'un amatuer deboussole" in Le Figaro, 2 January 1981, p. 13 (illustrated).

P. Courcelles, "Arts Plastiques" in Revolution, 29 January 1981 (illustrated).

R. Micha, “Lettre de Paris: Andrew Wyeth” in Arts International, January-February 1981, vol. 24, nos. 5-6, pp. 232 and 234 (illustrated).

O. Findsen, "A guerilla guide to the Hammer collection" in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 16 April 1981, p. C5.

J. Walker, The Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, 1985, p. 218, no. 125 (illustrated).

The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, 1986, vol. 216, nos. 839-899, pp. 85 and 87.

S. Lingemann, "Kunstler Sehen Amerika" in Architectural Digest, May 1986, pp. 9-14 (illustrated in color).

"The Helgas: Lifting the Wyeth Veil" in The Philadelphia Enquirer, 12 August 1986 (illustrated).

"Wyeth's Secret" in Times Standard, 13 August 1986, p. 11 (illustrated).

P. Richard, “Portrait of an Obsession” in The Washington Post, 17 August 1986, p. 1 (illustrated).

B. Barol, C. McGuigan and P. McKillop, "Wyeth's Secret Cache" in Newsweek, August 1986, p. 3.

B. Barol, C. McGuigan and P. McKillop, "Andrew Wyeth's Secret Obsession" in Newsweek, August 1986, p. 51 (illustrated in color).

T. Hoving, "The Prussian - Andrew Wyeth's Secret Paintings (1972-85)" in Connoisseur, September 1986, pp. 84-87 (illustrated in color).

"Ein Bilderschatz in der alten Muhle wird zue Presseund Preissensation" in Art - Das Kunstmagazin, November 1986, pp. 88-92 (illustrated in color).

"Top Guns" in Life, January 1987, p. 37 (illustrated in color).

J. Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 7, 11, 19, 26, 30-31, 169 and 199, no. 206 (illustrated in color, p. 169, no. 206).

B. Shunju, Gakano Tsuma Tachi, Japan, 1993 (illustrated in color).

R. Meryman, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life, New York, 1996, pp. 350-51.

A.A. Anderson and P.E. Bolin, eds., The History of Art Education: Proceedings of the Third Penn State International Symposium, State College, Pennsylvania, 1997, p. 568.

W. Vaughan, ed., Encyclopedia of Artists: Robbia-Zurbarán, Oxford, 2000, p. 93.

J.B. Jiminez, Dictionary of Artists’ Models, New York, 2001, p. 523 (illustrated).

H. Kruger, Zarte Blume Hoffnung, Cologne, 2005 (illustrated in color on the cover).

D. Kuspit, "Shameless and Unashamed" on Artnet, 6 October 2005 (illustrated in color).

G. Gehman, “The Wry World of Wyeth: Retrospective Explores Magical Realism of an American Icon” in The Morning Call, 26 March 2006.

H. Adams, "Wyeth's World" in Smithsonian Magazine, June 2006, pp. 84-92 (illustrated in color).

BBC Scotland, Michael Palin in Wyeth's World, documentary film, 2013.

D. Cateforis, Rethinking Andrew Wyeth, Berkeley, 2014 (illustrated in color).

R. Hughes, The Spectacle of Skill, New York, 2015, p. 638.

T.J. Standring, Wyeth: Andrew & Jamie in the Studio, New Haven, 2015, p. 136.

Wyeth, documentary film, 2018.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Aquarelles, Drybrush, Dessins, 1980-1981, no. 29 (illustrated in color on the cover).

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1981.

Beijing, National Art Museum, The Armand Hammer Collection of Paintings, 1982.

Maine, Portland Museum of Art, Maine Light: Temperas of Andrew Wyeth, May-September 1983.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Paintings from the Armand Hammer Collection: An Inaugural Celebration, January-February 1985 (illustrated in color).

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Leningrad, Hermitage Museum; Moscow, U.S.S.R. State Art Gallery; Novosibirsk, Regional Picture Gallery; Odessa Fine Art Museum; Kiev State Museum of Ukranian Fine Arts; Tblisi, State Museum of Art of the Georgian S.S.R.; Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum and Holyoke, Heritage State Park, The Armand Hammer Collection: Five Centuries of Masterpieces, November 1985-August 1987.

New York, Hammer Galleries, Realism: A Continuing American Exhibition, November-December 1987 (illustrated in color).

Chadds Ford, Brandywine River Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art, The Helga Pictures: Then and Now, September 1992-October 1993.

Palm Springs Desert Museum, The Armand Hammer Collection: Five Centuries of Masterpieces, January-March 1996.

Atlanta, High Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic, November 2005-July 2006, pp. 22, 24, 74, 191 and 214, no. 89 (illustrated in color, p. 191, pl. 68).



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This work will be included in Betsy James Wyeth’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.
Artist:Andrew Wyeth (1917 - 2009)
Applied technique:Painted, Tempera
Art style:20th Century Realism
Category:Painting
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