$290,000
Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 7, 2015 3:00:00 PM EDT
Signed with monogram bottom left, oil on canvas, unframed
24 3/8 x 26 1/4 in. (61.9 x 66.7cm)
Provenance: The Artist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1923.
Property from the Wilmington Institute Library.
EXHIBITED:
(Possibly) Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, 1923.
Wilmington, Delaware, 1981.
LITERATURE:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, New York, 1920, cover illustration, (edition with maroon binding) and cover label (undated edition, Philadelphia).
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 203.
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. one, London, 2008, p. 402, no. I.809, (as "Robinson Crusoe, cover, 1920") (illustrated).