Live Auction 21774Modern American Art
ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Lot 80

ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

Study for 'Heat Lightning'

Closed18 April 2024

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USD 69,300

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ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Wyeth, A.
Study for 'Heat Lightning'
signed 'A. Wyeth' and inscribed with title (lower left)
pencil on paper
24 x 17 7/8 in. (61 x 45.4 cm.)
Executed in 1977.

Joseph E. Levine, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Estate of the above.
Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 30 March 1999, lot 367, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The grandniece of Andy Davis, Wyeth's friend, model and prominent member of the African American community of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, served as the model for the present work.