Andrew Wyeth American, 1917-2009
Bikini, 1968
Drybrush watercolor on paper
20 x 14 inches
50.8 x 35.6 cm
50.8 x 35.6 cm
Signed at lower left: Andrew Wyeth
The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.
The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.
Provenance
The artist;[M. Knoedler & Co., New York]; to
Amanda K. Berls, New York, 1968; by bequest to
Ruth Yerion, New York; by bequest to
The Byron Collection, East Hampton, New York, 1989;
[Sale: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 2009, lot 13];
Frank Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; to
The estate of the above
Exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Special Loan Exhibition, 1970, no. 165Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, A Tribute to American Realism: The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion, January, 1976, illus.
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion, January-March 1980, illus.
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Ericksons, December 2003-April 2004
Literature
Florence Berkman, "Andrew Wyeth to Times critic: My works are misunderstood," The Hartford Times, July 26, 1970, p. 1A, illus.Philip Isaacson, "Wyeth: An American Phenomenon," Maine Sunday Telegram, August 2, 1970, p. 5D, illus.
"Art: The World of Wyeth," Newsweek, August 1970, pp. 54-57, illus. in color
Mizue, no. 820, 1973, illus.
David McCord and Fredrick A. Sweet, Andrew Wyeth, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970, pp. 158-159
"Andrew Wyeth," Mizue: A Monthly Review of the Fine Arts (Japanese language publication), July 1, 1973, p. 17
Coe Kerr Gallery, Tribute to American Realism: The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion, New York, 1976
Brandywine Museum of Art, Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion, Chadds Ford, 1980, p. 39
Gretchen Burch, "Sotheby's," The New York Times, November 20, 2009, p. 52
"Sotheby's Sale of American Paintings to be Held in December," artdaily.org, November 24, 2009
"American Paintings at Auction," The Magazine Antiques, November 30, 2009
Katya Kazakina, "Bikini Babe, Crusoe Paintings by Wyeths Top $12.6 Million Sales," Bloomberg.com, December 1, 2009
