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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

"Michael Was Running on across the Steppe Endeavouring to Gain the Covert of Some Trees when a Detachment of Tartar Cavalry Appeared on the Right"

Fermé22 May 2014

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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
"Michael Was Running on across the Steppe Endeavouring to Gain the Covert of Some Trees when a Detachment of Tartar Cavalry Appeared on the Right"
signed 'NC Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 x 30½ in. (101.6 x 77.5 cm.)
Painted in 1927.

The artist.
By descent to the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

On May 25, 1927, Wyeth wrote to one of his brothers, "I have just left my easle [sic] after seven hours straight of concentrated identification with a phase of the tartar invasion of Russia during Alexander II reign,..."

Please note that this lot includes a copy of the 1927 edition of Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff, for which this illustration was created.