Artist:
attributed to N. C. Wyeth
Still Life with Green Bottle, Bowl and Teapot
Alternate Title(s):Untitled (Still life with Bottle and Bowl)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1910 / 1915
Dimensions:
20 × 14 in. (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2043
Research Number: NCW: 2043
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (probably not in NCW's hand)
Provenance(?); (Gallery-by-the-Sea, Port Clyde, ME, 1999); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE to 2005 (Christie's New York, NY, Dec. 5, 2002, lot no. 208, unsold);
Exhibition HistoryRockland, ME, 1999, illus. in color p. 19, as "Untitled (Still Life with Bottle and Bowl)"
Curatorial RemarksThis work came onto the market as an N. C. Wyeth painting, and there is no question it was painted by a Wyeth family member; two of the objects depicted are still in N. C. Wyeth's studio (bottle, NCWS.95.1552; blue cup, one of a set, NCWS.95.1509). The composition with the teapot abruptly cut off is unusual for N. C. Wyeth, which may suggest another hand (the teapot does not continue into the tacking edge so the still life is not a fragment of a larger arrangement). Henriette, Carolyn, and Andrew Wyeth all practiced still life painting in their father's studio. Attempts to establish the earlier portion of the provenance have not been successful.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of MBNA America