$25,200
Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz
Auction: December 5, 2021 2:00:00 PM EDT
Inscribed 'Copyright/Frederic Remington' on mountain base; also inscribed 'The Mountain Man/ Reg. No. 13/100/Cast from Frederic Remington's/Original Masterpiece/1000+ ozt. Fine Silver .999 Pure/Authorized By/Frederic/Remington Art Museum (with accompanying cypher)/Silversmiths Group USA/Liberty Mint/The Maiden Foundry/1989/88,' beneath the base, silver
Height: 28 3/4 in. (73cm)
Executed in 1989.
Provenance
Private Collection, South Carolina.
Literature
Bruce Wear, The Bronze World of Frederic Remington, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1966, pp. 72, 73 (bronze model illustrated).
Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, New York, 1966, fig. 370 (bronze model illustrated).
Peter Hassrick, Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections, New York, 1973, no. 85, pp. 194, 195 (bronze model illustrated).
Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 125 (bronze model illustrated).
Michael Edward Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 33, 69-74, 77-81, 105 (bronze models illustrated).
Michael Edward Shapiro and Peter Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, pp. 205, 210, 211, 214, 231, 267 (bronze model illustrated).
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Ogdensburg, New York, 1996, pp. 105-112, 190 (bronze model illustrated).