Jun 12, 2014 - Sale 2354

Sale 2354 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 22,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
ANDREW WYETH
Portrait of Alfred Porter.

Pencil on paper, 1973. 280x355 mm;11x14 inches. Signed in pencil, lower left recto.

Ex-collection private collection, Longboat Key, Florida; John H. Surovek Fine Arts, Inc., Palm Beach, Florida; private collection.

We are grateful to Mary Adam Landa, Wyeth Collection Manager, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, for helping to identify this drawing. It will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Wyeth's work.

Alfred Porter was an acquaintance of Andrew Wyeth; they both shared an interst in Stutz cars.