Wyeth called it a view of “a woman pulling away from life.” Each of Wyeth’s Helga images stands alone as emotionally powerful works of art. 2), a 1985 drybrush painting that shows Helga at a time when she was undergoing treatment for depression. It also features the last work in the Helga series, Refuge (Fig. 1), a 1971 head portrait of Helga, so named because Wyeth considered it to be his first successful treatment of his subject. The Adelson exhibit offers a broad view of the suite and includes First Drawing (Fig. The entire Helga suite tends to be remembered for its highly detailed nudes, particularly the image of Helga wearing a black ribbon around her neck, which is often compared to Manet’s Olympia. The gallery chose to focus on the works on paper because, as president Warren Adelson noted, “Andrew Wyeth’s draughtsmanship may be his least heralded virtue, and I feel it may be his greatest.” The works in the exhibit were selected from the Helga collection recently sold to an unnamed American for an undisclosed amount by the Japanese collector who owned it since 1989. The show comprises sixty drawings, watercolors, and drybrushes. Wyeth.Īndrew Wyeth: Helga on Paper -the first exhibition of Helga works in New York-is on view at Adelson Galleries from November 3 through December 22, 2006.
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