A Mood Apart

Name: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Brand: A Mood Apart
Price: 5000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 6,250

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Closed: 7 Aug 2020

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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)

A Mood Apart

Price Realised USD 6,250

Closed: 7 Aug 2020

Price Realised USD 6,250

Closed: 7 Aug 2020

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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
A Mood Apart
signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
pencil on paper
image, 6 in. (15.24 cm.) diameter;
sheet, 11¹⁄₂ x 11¹⁄₈ in. (29.2 x 28.3 cm.)
Executed in 1974.

The artist.
The Franklin Mint, New York, commissioned from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, p. 399, no. A363.

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Lot Essay

This image was commissioned by the Franklin Mint in 1974 for a series of sterling silver medals honoring Robert Frost. Each of the twelve medals represented a Frost poem, the present illustrating The poem goes, "Once down on my knees to growing plants/ I prodded the earth with a lazy tool/ in time with a medley of sotto chants./ But becoming aware of some boys from school/ who had stopped outside the fence to spy/ I stopped my song and almost heart./ For any eye is an evil eye/ that looks in onto a mood apart."