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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 58 | $****** - ****** | OVERHEARD LOVERS |
paintings
76.5 x 61.3 cm (30.12 x 24.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed Norman/Rockwell (lower right)
J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York
The Collection of Mrs. Charles W. Fribley, Jr.
Gift to the present owner from the above
The Saturday Evening Post, November 21, 1936, cover illustration (©SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved)
Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, no. 309, illustrated p. 130
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, no. 96, illustrated pp. 88, 288
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell: 322 Magazine Covers, New York, 1979, pp. 246, 271
Dr. Donald R. Stoltz and Marshall L. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and 'The Saturday Evening Post:' The Middle Years, New York, 1976, p. 123, illustrated p. 124 (as Eavesdropping)
Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalogue of the Artist’s Work, 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, illustrated fig. 1-279, p. 61
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. C359, p. 135, illustrated p. 134
Jan Cohn, Covers of ‘The Saturday Evening Post:’ Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 139
Richard Halpern, Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence, Chicago, Illinois, 2005, p. 33, illustrated p. 34
signed Norman/Rockwell (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 1/8 by 24 1/8 inches
(76.5 by 61.3 cm)
Painted in 1936.
