Lot 39
  • 39

Frederic Remington 1861 - 1909

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Frederic Remington
  • With the Wolfhounds [Coursing with the Greyhounds]
  • signed Frederic Remington (lower left)

  • oil en grisaille on canvas

  • 25 by 23 1/2 inches
  • (63.5 by 59.7 cm)
  • Painted in 1902.

Provenance

Smith and Wesson, Bangor Punta Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1902 (commissioned from the artist)

Exhibited

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Paine Art Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, August-December 1967, no. 46, illustrated
Cody, Wyoming, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Special Exhibition, Loans and New Acquisitions, May-October 1970, no. 39
Cody, Wyoming, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Remington Retrospective in Honor of Harold McCracken, May-October 1974

Literature

Harper's Monthly, December 1902, illustrated
Peggy and Harold Samuels, Remington: The Complete Prints, New York, 1990, no. 77, p. 64, illustrated p. 73
Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster, Frederic Remington:  A Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. II, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, no. 2690, p. 766, illustrated

Condition

Good condition, lined; under UV: scattered spots of inpainting in upper left corner and left edge; spots in the upper right corner and a cluster in the upper right sky; two spots in the ground between the wolf and hound.
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