A Time to Talk

Name: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Brand: A Time to Talk
Price: 10000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 12,500

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Closed: 7 Aug 2020

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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)

A Time to Talk

Price Realised USD 12,500

Closed: 7 Aug 2020

Price Realised USD 12,500

Closed: 7 Aug 2020

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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
A Time to Talk
signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
pencil on paper
image, 8⁷⁄₈ in. (22.5 cm.) diameter;
sheet, 11 x 10¹⁄₈ in. (27.9 x 25.7 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. A366.

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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 begins, "When a friend calls to me from the road/ and slows his horse to a meaning walk,/ I don’t stand still and look around/ on all the hills I haven’t hoed,/ and shout from where I am, 'What is it?'/ No, not as there is a time to talk."