Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Enter, madame," said the Arab to the mother, and stood aside against the open door to let her pass in
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Cawley Family
Accession number: SUPP2000.1998
Research Number: NCW: 1998
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, and loaned to YMCA, Morristown, NJ; (?); Private collection, Madison, NJ, and descended in family; (Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 27, 1999, lot no. 186); The Cawley Family Collection; (Christie's, New York, NY, Nov. 20, 2018, lot no. );
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 276; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.458, p. 266
Curatorial RemarksTo paint this illustration for Scribner's, the artist used a canvas on which he had already painted an image published earlier in Everybody's Magazine (see NCW 1656). The presence of the underimage was confirmed by xradiography at Winterthur Museum in 2000 by Richard C. Wolbers.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Sotheby's, 1999