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The Wake by Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth

The Wake, 1964

Tempera on panel
74.3 x 122.6 cm (29.25 x 48.25 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (14 Nov 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022
Sotheby'sNew YorkModern Evening Auction124
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The Wake
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

74.3 x 122.6 cm (29.25 x 48.25 in)

Materials

tempera on panel

Signature

signed Andrew Wyeth (lower right)

Provenance

The artist

(with) M. Knoedler & Co., New York

Mr. William E. Weiss, New York (acquired from the above in 1967)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, The 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, 1964-65, no. 391

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Andrew Wyeth, 1966-67, no. 207, p. 98

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, 1970, no. 145, p. 204, illustrated

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Newport News, Virginia, The Mariners Museum, American Marine Painting, 1976, no. 73, p. 46; p. 147 illustrated

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Sights of the Sea, 1978

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, A Time to Mourn, 1981

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, 1993-94 (on loan)

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, 2008 (on loan)

Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth in Perspective, 2011-12, p. 29, illustrated

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, 2013-14; 2017 (on loan)

Literature

Richard Meryman, Andrew Wyeth, Boston, 1968, p. 133, illustrated

Description

Property from the Estate of William D. Weiss, Wyoming

Andrew Wyeth

1917 - 2009

The Wake

signed Andrew Wyeth (lower right)

tempera on panel

29 ¼ by 48 ¼ in. 74.3 by 122.6 cm.

Executed in 1964.

This work will be included in Betsy James Wyeth's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.