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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 21, 2014 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 81 | $****** - ****** | Is it play for Eyes too? (Boy with Model Airplane) |
paintings
86.4 x 73.7 cm (34.02 x 29.02 in)
oil on canvas laid down on board
signed Norman Rockwell (lower right) and inscribed AO (lower left)
The American Optical Company, Tillyer Lenses, New Haven, Connecticut, 1929 (commissioned from the artist)
Acquired by the present owner, 2000
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; Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, The Picture of Health: Norman Rockwell Paintings, November 2003-May 2004, p. 9, illustrated in color p. 8
The Saturday Evening Post, November 9, 1929, advertisement for The American Optical Company, Tillyer Lenses; Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist's Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, p. 175; Dr. Donald Robert Stoltz, Marshall Louis Stoltz and William B. Earle, The Advertising World of Norman Rockwell, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1985, illustrated in color p. 197; Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. I, no. A800, p. 553
