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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 22, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 20 | $****** - ****** | Doc Mellhorn And The Pearly Gates 'He Was Just a Good Doctor And He Knew Us Inside Out |
paintings
66.7 x 54.6 cm (26.26 x 21.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed Norman Rockwell (upper left)
The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1938
Acquired by the present owner, 2003
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, Freedom: Norman Rockwell's Vermont Years, June-October 2003 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, The Picture of Health: Norman Rockwell Paintings, November 2003-May 2004, p. 10, illustrated in color p. 11 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, June-September 2006, July-September 2008, July-September 2009, June 2010-September 2011 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum; Old Lyme, Connecticut, Florence Griswold Museum; Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Art; Mobile, Alabama, Mobile Museum of Art; Fredericksburg, Virginia, Gari Melchers Home and Studio; El Paso, Texas, El Paso Museum of Art; Sandwich, Massachusetts, Heritage Museum and Gardens, Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration, January 2007-September 2012
Saturday Evening Post, December 24, 1938, p. 22, illustrated; Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist's Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1978, fig. 2-54, p. 113, illustrated p. 112; Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. II, no. S548, p. 763, illustrated p. 762
