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Lot Essay
This work will be included in Betsy James Wyeth's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
Andrew Wyeth executed Halyards while spending the summer of 1986 at his home on Southern Island at the entrance to Tenants Harbor, Maine. The featured flagpole in the foreground was presented to the artist as a 69th birthday gift from his wife Betsy that July. A pencil drawing of the pole is on the reverse of the paper.
The present lot includes a copy of a letter about Halyards from Andrew Wyeth to the late owner dated November 17, 1986.
Andrew Wyeth executed Halyards while spending the summer of 1986 at his home on Southern Island at the entrance to Tenants Harbor, Maine. The featured flagpole in the foreground was presented to the artist as a 69th birthday gift from his wife Betsy that July. A pencil drawing of the pole is on the reverse of the paper.
The present lot includes a copy of a letter about Halyards from Andrew Wyeth to the late owner dated November 17, 1986.