$270,000
Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 7, 2015 3:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'NC Wyeth' bottom right, oil on canvas, unframed
40 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (103.5 x 76.8cm)
Provenance: The Artist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1923.
Property from the Wilmington Institute Library.
EXHIBITED:
Wilmington, Delaware, 1921, no. 85 (as "Robinson Crusoe and His Grainfield").
Philadelphia Art Alliance (?), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1921.
(Possibly) Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, 1923.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1965, no. 94 (as "The Reaper").
Chadds Ford, 1976.
Wilmington, Delaware, 1981.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1985.
LITERATURE:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, New York, 1920, opp. 154 (illustrated).
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. 405, no. I.817, (illustrated).