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Property from a Distinguished American Western Collection

N.C. Wyeth

"Waite seized him and swung him on high..." (Bar-room Brawl)

Live auction begins on:

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