Jamie Wyeth - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Phillips
  • "Through this whole farm obsession of mine, I sort of viewed myself as a latter-day Dorothy [from The Wizard of Oz], my life filled with real and imagined creatures."
    —Jamie Wyeth

    • Provenance

      Nicholas Wyeth, Inc., Cushing
      Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Crompton, III, Coatesville, Pennsylvania
      Christie’s, New York, December 8, 1987, lot 305
      Private Collection, Texas (acquired at the above sale)
      Thence by descent to the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Rockland, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, James Wyeth: Oils, Watercolors, Drawings, July 11–September 8, 1969, no. 42, n.p.
      Chadds Ford, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Heritage, June 19–October 17, 1971
      Chadds Ford, Brandywine River Museum, Farm Work by Jaime Wyeth, June 11–September 11, 2011, p. 49 (illustrated)

172

Duck, Fence, and Stump

signed "Jamie Wyeth" lower left
watercolor on paper
19 x 28 in. (48.3 x 71.1 cm)
Executed in 1967.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $44,100

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Annie Dolan
Specialist, Head of Day Sale, Morning Session
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 19 May 2022