Lot #840: ANDREW WYETH - Braids - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009).
Title: "Braids [Helga]".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1979. Printed 1987.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 3/8 x 14 5/8 in. (289 x 371 mm). Image size: 9 5/8 x 12 3/16 in. (244 x 310 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right; initialed in the plate, upper right. Edition unknown. Cream wove paper. Wide margins. Fine impression. Good to very good condition; some handling creases visible mainly in the raking light. 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. [28306-3-600]