Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection

Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Charles Marion Russell

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Auction Closed

April 20, 09:25 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Charles Marion Russell

1864 - 1926

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inscribed CM Russell with the artist's skull insignia and Copyright 1904 by / the New York Co-Operative Society (on the base)

bronze

13 in. (33 cm.) high

Conceived circa 1903; copyrighted in 1904; this example cast before 1926.

J.N. Bartfield Galleries, Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above on November 5, 1982)
Christie's New York, December 2, 1988 lot 175 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0949 (acquired from the above)
Rick Stewart, Charles M. Russell Sculptor, New York, 1994, fig. 1-57, pp. 35, 59, 120, 142, illustration of another cast
B. Byron Price, ed., Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné, Norman, Oklahoma, 2007, pp. 189-191, illustration of another cast