Lot 157
  • 157

Charles Marion Russell

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Marion Russell
  • Mountain Mother
  • inscribed CM Russell © with the artist's skull device and with the Roman Bronze Works Inc.N.Y. foundry mark
  • bronze, dark brown patina
  • Height: 6 3/4 in.
  • (17.1 cm.)
  • Modeled in 1924 and cast circa 1959

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, New York
Private Collection, New Jersey (acquired from the above, 1968)
By descent in the family to the present owner

Literature

Rick Stewart, Charles M. Russell: Sculptor, Fort Worth, Texas, 1994, pp. 291-294, illustration of another example, pp. 291-294

Condition

Overall good condition; a tiny loss to mother bear's right ear
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