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Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

Charles Marion Russell

The Proposal

Auction Closed

January 19, 05:21 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

Charles Marion Russell

1864 - 1926

The Proposal


signed with the initials CMR and inscribed with the artist's skull device (lower left)

watercolor and pencil on paper

9 ¾ by 16 in.

24.8 by 40.6

Executed circa 1896-98.


This work is number CR.UNL.436 in the online catalogue raisonné of the artist's work at www.russellraisonne.com.

Mrs. Alice G. Sullivan, New York

Newhouse Galleries, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 16 October 1974, lot 18 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Washington

Pete and Janet Taggares, Washington

Coeur d'Alene, Reno, Nevada, 31 July 2021, lot 268

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Harold McCracken, The Charles M. Russell Book, Garden City, New York 1957, p. 115, illustrated

Karl Yost and Fredrick Renner, A Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles M. Russell, Lincoln, Nebraska 1971, p. 33