Lot #2516: ANDREW WYETH - May Day - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009).
Title: "May Day".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1960. Printed 1963.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 3/16 x 14 3/4 in. (284 x 375 mm). Image size: 9 11/16 x 13 7/16 in. (246 x 341 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $225
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $300/400
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower 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. [27969-3-225-NA]