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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 22, 2019 | Christie's | New York | American Art | 60 | $****** - ****** | The Homecoming |
paintings
71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
The artist.
Ben Hibbs, gift from the above, by 1951.
Edith K. Hibbs, wife of the above, by descent, 1975.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2005.
New York, Rockefeller Center, International Galleries, Society of Illustrators, May 3-20, 1946.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League of New York, March 16-April 29, 1951, p. 64, illustrated (as The Soldier's Return).
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; San Francisco, California, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Art Center; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, February 11, 1972-April 15, 1973, pp. 84, 153, illustrated (as Homecoming G.I.).
The Saturday Evening Post, May 26, 1945, cover illustration.
A.L. Guptill, Norman Rockwell: Illustrator, New York, 1946, pp. xviii, 153, 188-89, 205, illustrated (as Home-Coming Soldier).
N. Rockwell, The Norman Rockwell Album, Garden City, New York, 1961, p. 2, illustrated (as Homecoming Soldier).
T. Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, n.p., pl. 410, 417, illustrated.
C. Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America, New York, 1975, pp. 195-97, fig. 244, illustrated (as Homecoming GI).
N. Rockwell, Rockwell on Rockwell: How I Make a Picture, New York, 1979, pp. 80-81, illustrated.
F. Bauer, Norman Rockwell’s Faith of America, New York, 1980, pp. 129-30, 132, illustrated (as Homecoming GI).
S.E. Meyer, Norman Rockwell’s People, New York, 1981, pp. 114-15, 220, illustrated (as Soldier’s Homecoming).
L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 160-61, no. C418, illustrated.
J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post, New York, 1998, p. 199, illustrated.
M.H. Hennessey, A. Knutson, Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People, exhibition catalogue, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999, pp. 133-34, 197, illustrated.
L. Claridge, Norman Rockwell: A Life, New York, 2003, p. 332.
A. Nemerov, "Coming Home in 1945: Reading Robert Frost and Norman Rockwell," American Art Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 58, 62-64, fig. 3, frontispiece illustration (as Homecoming GI).
V. Mecklenberg, Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2010, pp. 118-20, fig. 61, illustrated.
D. Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Normal Rockwell, New York, 2013, pp. 233-35, 241, illustrated (as Homecoming G.I.).
C. Finch, Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers, New York, 2013, pp. 254, 385, illustrated (as Homecoming G.I.).
signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1945.
