Lot 33
  • 33

Frederic Remington 1861 - 1909

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Frederic Remington
  • The 9th U.S. Infantry Entering Peking, August 15, 1900 (Coming Through the Chinese Wall)
  • signed Frederic Remington (lower left)
  • oil on canvas en grisaille
  • 27 1/8 by 40 1/4 inches
  • (68.9 by 102.2 cm)
  • Painted in 1900.

Provenance

Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (sold: American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, March 19, 1936, lot 66, illustrated)
George F. Harding, Chicago, Illinois
George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois, 1939 (bequest from the above)
Transferred to the present owner from the above, 1982

Exhibited

Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington from the George F. Harding Museum, June-August 1969
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Frederic Remington: Painting and Sculpture from the George F. Harding Collection, September-October 1982

Literature

Charles Denby, Jr., "The Loot and the Man," Harper's Weekly, October 27, 1900, illustrated pp. 1012-13
Harold McCracken, Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1947, p. 140
Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, vol. II, no. 2504, p. 719, illustrated