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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 9 | $****** - ****** | FIRST FLIGHT (OLD WOMAN RIDING AIRPLANE) |
paintings
78.7 x 63.5 cm (30.98 x 25 in)
oil on canvas
signed Norman/Rockwell (lower right)
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Künstler, Oyster Bay, New York
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1980
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, March-May 1972, no. 36, illustrated p. 74 (as Airplane Trip)
Daytona Beach, Florida, Museum of Arts and Sciences; West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art, Norman Rockwell's America, January-March 1976
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Art of American Illustration, September-November 1976
The Saturday Evening Post, June 3, 1938, illustrated on the cover © SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved.
Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, no. 317, illustrated p. 130
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America, New York, 1975, p. 126, illustrated fig. 166, p. 133
Dr. Donald R. Stoltz and Marshall L. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and 'The Saturday Evening Post:' The Middle Years, New York, 1976, p. 143, illustrated p. 144 (as Maiden Voyage)
Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalogue of the Artist’s Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, illustrated fig. 1-289, p. 62
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers, New York, 1979, pp. 283, 290
Norman Rockwell, Rockwell on Rockwell: How I Make a Picture, New York, 1979, illustrated p. 69
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: Catalogue Raisonné, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. I, no. C369, p. 138, illustrated p. 139
Jan Cohn, Covers of “The Saturday Evening Post:” Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 167
signed Norman/Rockwell (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 by 25 inches
(78.7 by 63.5 cm)
Painted in 1938.
