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Property from a Private Collection

Norman Rockwell

Barefoot Boy Playing Flute

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Norman Rockwell

1894 - 1978


Barefoot Boy Playing Flute

signed Norman / Rockwell (lower right)

oil on canvas

32 by 24 ⅜ in.

81.3 by 61.9 cm.

Executed by 1938.

Judy & Alan Goffman Fine Art, New York

Acquired from the above circa 1995 by the present owner

Leland D. Case, ed., The Rotarian, vol. 52, no. 6, June 1938, p. 5, illustrated in color on the cover (titled Music Has Charms)

Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, 1986, no. C186, pp. viii, 70 and 89, illustrated in color