![]() ![]() ![]() Helga is shown nude and clothed, posed against doors and windows, and asleep and awake during different seasons and times of day. The Helga Pictures consist of groups of 30 different interrelated poses. Museum hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets are $6, $4 for senior citizens and children ages 6-16. The exhibition, which will remain in Boston through January 3, 1988, can only be viewed by reserving a ticket through TICKETRON or the museum's Wyeth box office. and author of "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures." "Such close attention by a painter to one model over so long a period is a remarkable, if not singular, circumstance in the history of American art," writes John Wilmerding, deputy director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. ![]() He sold the works for $10 million and received national media attention unusual for an American artist. The paintings created a stir last summer when Wyeth revealed that he had been working with the model in secret for 15 years. "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures," an exihibition of 107 drawings and watercolors by the popular and controversial American artist, opens tomorrow at the Museum of Fine Arts.Įxecuted during a 15-year span from 1971 to 1985, the suite of drawings focuses exclusively on a single model, Wyeth's neighbor Helga Testorf of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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