Live Auction 3744American Art
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Lot 64

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)

Study for 'Boy and Father: Baseball Dispute'

Closed21 May 2015

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USD 257,000

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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Study for 'Boy and Father: Baseball Dispute'
signed 'Norman Rockwell' and signed again 'sincerely/Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)--dated '1962' (lower center)--inscribed 'Spring' (upper center)
pencil on paper
19 x 17 in. (48.3 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1962.

The artist.
Betty Burchmyer, Ithaca, New York, gift from the above, circa 1960s.
Private collection, Upstate New York, gift from the above.
Estate of the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present work is a study for the spring image in a 1962 Brown & Bigelow "Four Seasons" calendar (no. A169 in L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986).