
Property from a Distinguished American Western Collection
"Waite seized him and swung him on high..." (Bar-room Brawl)
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January 24, 07:00 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Bid
100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished American Western Collection
N.C. Wyeth
1882 - 1945
"Waite seized him and swung him on high..." (Bar-room Brawl)
signed Convers Wyeth and indistinctly dedicated To Daniel McLaughlin / From … Chadds Ford, Pa. / 1923 (upper left)
oil on canvas
22 by 34 in.
55.9 by 86.4 cm.
Executed in 1915.
Daniel McLaughlin (acquired directly from the artist in 1923)
Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired in 1964)
The James S. Copley Library, San Diego (acquired from the above in 1964)
Sotheby’s, New York, 11 April 2013, lot 164 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Ceylon Hollingsworth, "Punderson Waite," Collier's: The National Weekly, vol. 56, no. 16, 1 January 1916, p. 10, illustrated
Richard F. Pourade, The Glory Years, San Diego, 1964, p. 173, illustrated; p. 256, illustrated
Les Beitz, "N.C. Wyeth, Painter of Men ... in Action!," True West, vol. 15, no. 2, December 1967, p. 21, illustrated
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen Jr., N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, pp. 256 and 279
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, no. I. 580 (681), p. 310, illustrated in color; p. 311
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