Lot Essay
The present work was reproduced on the cover of the November 1915 issue of New Story Magazine, as an illustration for W.L. Beard's story "Ordeal."
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Property from a Private Collection
NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)
The Red Robe
Details
NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)
The Red Robe
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
34 x 25 in. (86.4 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1915.
The Red Robe
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
34 x 25 in. (86.4 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1915.
Provenance
Street & Smith, New York.
Private collection, Garden City, New York.
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1987.
Sotheby's, New York, 23 September 1993, lot 296.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Private collection, Garden City, New York.
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1987.
Sotheby's, New York, 23 September 1993, lot 296.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
W.L. Beard, "Ordeal," New Story Magazine, vol. II, no. 1, November 1915, cover illustration.
C.B. Podmaniczky, J.H. Stoner, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, p. 313, no. I588, illustrated.
C.B. Podmaniczky, J.H. Stoner, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, p. 313, no. I588, illustrated.
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