Andrew Wyeth's Helga

This is another painting that has significance in the book. In 1986, Andrew Wyeth revealed his Helga collection--247 works of a woman named Helga who was his neighbor and helper. He painted and drew her over and over, naked and dressed, without the knowledge (Wyeth says) of Wyeth's wife or Helga's husband, over a period of 14 years. It was the first time such a massive collection, done around a single subject, had been revealed as a whole, and it rather shocked the art world. He sold the collection to a single buyer for a massive amount of money, but I find his whole fascination with this woman very interesting.