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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Lot 27 PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION 

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)

Missed (Four Sporting Boys: Golf)--Study

Closed22 May 2014

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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Missed (Four Sporting Boys: Golf)--Study
signed and inscribed 'My very best/to/Paul Helms, sincerely/Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
pencil on paper
16 x 13¾ in. (40.6 x 35 cm.), image; 19¾ x 17¼ in. (50.2 x 43.8 cm.), sheet
Executed in 1949.

Private collection, Chicago, Illinois.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present work is a study for the summer image in a 1951 Brown & Bigelow "Four Seasons" calendar (no. A126 in L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986).