NORMAN ROCKWELL (American, 1894-1978). Four Ages of Love: Courting Couple, Brown & Bigelow preliminary calendar illustrati...

Description

NORMAN ROCKWELL (American, 1894-1978)
Four Ages of Love: Courting Couple, Brown & Bigelow preliminary calendar illustration, 1955
Pencil on tracing paper
13.5 x 12.75 in.
Signed lower right

Property from a Distinguished Private Collector.
PROVENANCE:
Ejner Handburg, Stockbridge, Massachusetts;
Private collector, acquired from the above, circa 1985;
Sotheby's, New York, November 28, 2007, lot 129;
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

LITERATURE:
L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. A140a, pp. 318-19, illustrated.

NOTE:
The present work is a study for Spring in the 1955 Four Seasons calendar published by Brown & Bigelow.

More information about NORMAN ROCKWELL. See also: Rockwell, Norman, Norman Rockwell, Rockwell, Norman Perceval Artist.

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