Live Auction 2822American Art
Walter Biggs (1886-1968)
Lot 111

Walter Biggs (1886-1968)

"He Had His Wish. The Hands of Time Had Turned Back"

Closed26 February 2014

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Walter Biggs (1886-1968)
"He Had His Wish. The Hands of Time Had Turned Back"
signed 'Walter Biggs' (lower left)
oil on canvas
34 x 26 in. (86.4 x 66 cm.)

Private collection, Canyon City, Colorado.
Estate of the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa late 1970s.

Specialist note

The present work was published in Harper's Magazine as an illustration for Mary Heaton Vorse's "The Box-Stall," a story from 1919 about a man returning to his life in England after four years as a prisoner in a German civilian detention camp during World War I. Biggs depicts the scene when a war-hardened Ricky rediscovers hope and his will to live through his reunion with his childhood friend Dorothy, now grown into a beautiful woman.