Live Auction 21774Modern American Art
ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Lot 82

ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

Stair Door

Closed18 April 2024

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USD 176,400

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ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Wyeth, A.
Stair Door
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (upper right)
watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board
28 x 20 in. (71.1 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1955.

Private collection, Toronto, Canada, 1957.
Private collection.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Private collection, Woodmere, New York.
Private collection, New York.
Gift to the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present work depicts the stairs leading to the second floor of the historic John Chad house, which was built in 1725 and serves as the namesake for Wyeth’s hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.