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

Frederic Remington

The Passion of Ah-We-Ah

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January 24, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Bid

90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Frederic Remington

1861 - 1909


The Passion of Ah-We-Ah

signed Frederic Remington (lower right)

oil on canvas

27 ¼ by 40 ⅛ in.

69.2 by 101.9 cm.

Executed circa 1899.

James Graham & Sons, New York

Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired by 1974)

Jane and Charles W. Engelhard, New Jersey (probably acquired from the above)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above in 1988)

Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 2018, lot 65 (consigned by the above) 

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Cody, Wyoming, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, The Art of Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken, 1974, no. 11, p. 20, illustrated

Frederic Remington, "The Story of the Dry Leaves," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. XCIX, no. 589, June 1899, p. 99, illustrated

Harold McCracken, Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West, Philadelphia, 1947, p. 177, illustrated

Peggy Samuels and Harold Samuels, eds.,The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, Garden City, New York, 1986, p. 369, illustrated

Peter Hassrick and Melissa Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. II, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, no. 2432, p. 686, illustrated