Lot #1594: ANDREW WYETH - Canvasbacks - Offset lithograph

 

Artist: Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009).
Title: "Canvasbacks".
Medium: Offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1956. Printed 1963.
Dimensions: Overall size: 15 1/16 x 10 13/16 in. (383 x 275 mm). Image size: 12 11/16 x 6 5/8 in. (322 x 168 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right; signed in the plate, upper right. A proof from the edition of unknown size (c300?). Cream wove paper. Wide margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Provenance: Private collection, Santa Barbara, California. Comment(s): Andrew Newell Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He is one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In his art, Wyeth's favorite subjects were the land and people around him, both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine. One of the best-known images in 20th-century American art is his painting, "Christina's World," currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Image copyright © The Estate of Andrew Wyeth. [27967-3-150]