Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Ayrton's fight with the pirates
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Private Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.265
Research Number: NCW: 265
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to ca. 1935; Mr. and Mrs. David A. Randall; Ronald R. Randall, ca. 1976-1977; Collection of Maurice and Marcia Neville; (New York, NY, Sotheby's, Nov. 13, 2017, lot no. 65, unsold); (New York, NY, Sotheby's, June 26, 2020, lot no. 27)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, SC, 1974, no. 87; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 222; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.722, p. 372
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Doug Getty, Getty Photography, 11/2005