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Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Frederic Remington

Gingras, the Trapper

Live auction begins on:

January 24, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Bid

20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Frederic Remington

1861 - 1909


Gingras, the Trapper

signed Frederic Remington. and inscribed "a mountain man" (lower right)

pen and ink and ink wash on paperboard

image: 14 ½ by 10 in. 36.7 by 25.3 cm.

board: 16 ⅞ by 13 in. 42.9 by 32.9 cm.

Executed in 1892.

John Hay, Bremen, Maine and Brewster, Massachusetts

Skinner, Boston, 17 May 2013, lot 396 (probably consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, Boston, 1892, p. 170, illustrated

Peter Hassrick and Melissa Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. I, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, no. 1400, p. 411, illustrated