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"

已結束2014年5月22日

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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.

專家說明

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.