Andrew Wyeth Portrait Nets $2.4 Million at Auction for Maine’s Farnsworth Art Museum

PORTLAND; ME (AP).- A Jamie Wyeth portrait of his late father has sold for $2.4 million at an auction to benefit a museum that is devoted to the Maine-related artworks of three generations of Wyeths. The 1969 oil painting, “Portrait of Andrew Wyeth,” was among 12 pieces that sold Nov. 29 at the Adelson Galleries in New York City as part of the Farnsworth Art Museum‘s endowment campaign to sustain the artistic legacy of Andrew Wyeth, David Troup, spokesman for [...]

FBI Seizes a Forgery of Andrew Wyeth’s Painting “Snow Birds” from an Auction House

NEW YORK, NY.- David C Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today the seizure of a fraudulent Andrew Wyeth painting from a New York auction house, and the seizure of Mesopotamian antiquities from a California antiquities dealer. The seizures resulted from two separate investigations. Forged Andrew Wyeth Painting Seized In July of this year, the United States Attorney’s Office, the FBI Wilmington Resident Agency, and the FBI Art Crime Team seized a forgery of Andrew Wyeth’s [...]