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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) Her Head 14 x 16 1/2in (Executed in 1973.) image 1
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) Her Head 14 x 16 1/2in (Executed in 1973.) image 2
Lot 56

Andrew Wyeth
(1917-2009)
Her Head 14 x 16 1/2in

22 November 2016, 14:00 EST
New York

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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

Her Head
signed 'A. Wyeth' (lower right)
pencil on paper
14 x 16 1/2in
Executed in 1973.

Footnotes

Provenance
Leonard B. Andrews, Malvern, Pennsylvania, 1986.
AM Art, Inc., Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 1989.
Pacific Sun Trading Company, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2005.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Gift to the present owner, 2006.

Exhibited
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, May 24, 1987-December 16, 1990, p. 79, no. 69, illustrated (also in translated publication, Tokyo, Japan, 1897).
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, and elsewhere, The Helga Pictures: Then and Now, September 24, 1992-October 17, 1993.
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, January 13, 1996-June 29, 1997.
Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures: An Intimate Study, May 4, 2002-January 5, 2003.
Lafayette, Louisiana, University of Louisiana, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, April 21, 2004-January 9, 2005.
Naples, Florida, Naples Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth & Family, January 21, 2006-December 22, 2006.
New York, Adelson Galleries, Andrew Wyeth: Helga on Paper, November 3, 2006-December 22, 2006, p. 23, no. 4, illustrated.

Literature
D. Kuspit, D. Furchgott and P. Kiser, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures, Singapore, 2004, n.p., illustrated (also in Chinese translated publication, Washington, D.C., 2004).

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

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