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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 2, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 49 | $****** - ****** | Dreamboats |
paintings
81.9 x 66.7 cm (32.24 x 26.26 in)
oil on canvas
signed Norman Rockwell, l.l.
Mary-Amy Cross, Massachusetts (the artist's cousin, gift from the artist) By descent in the family to the present owners
Saturday Evening Post, February 19, 1938, illustrated in color on the cover cf. Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, no. 101, pp. 86, illustrated p. 90, and p. 289 (as The Moviestar) cf. Donald R. Stoltz and Marshall L. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and The Saturday Evening Post, New York, 1976, p. 139 (as Schoolgirl Crush), illustrated in color p. 140 Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist's Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, no.1-287, p. 62, illustrated p. 62 (as The Moviestar (Robert Taylor)) Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. 1, no. C367, p. 137, illustrated Jan Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post, New York, 1998, illustrated in color p. 166.
