Two Centuries: American Art

Two Centuries: American Art

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Frederic Remington

The Sergeant

Lot Closed

March 3, 05:49 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Frederic Remington

1861 - 1909

The Sergeant


inscribed Frederic Remington (along the base), also inscribed copyright by / Frederic Remington and ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (on the reverse)

bronze with dark brown patina

height: 10 ½ inches (26.7 cm)

Modeled in 1904.


It is possible that the present work is a late posthumous cast. 

Please note cataloguing for this lot has been updated.
Private collection, New York, 
By descent to the present owner, circa 1970s
Bruce Wear, The Bronze World of Frederic Remington, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1966, pp. 76-77, 148, other examples illustrated
Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, New York, 1966, p. 263, another example 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. 87, p. 200, another example illustrated
Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 147, another example illustrated
Michael Edward Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 53, 114-15, other examples illustrated
Michael Edward Shapiro and Peter Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, pp. 210-11, 224, 267, another example illustrated 
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Odgensburg, New York, 1996, pp. 113-15, 202, other examples illustrated