CHARLES MARION RUSSELL | THE STAGE AHEAD OF US HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY INDIANS AND BURNED (INDIAN ATTACK)

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November 19, 04:22 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

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Property of a Private New York Collector

CHARLES MARION RUSSELL

1864 - 1926

THE STAGE AHEAD OF US HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY INDIANS AND BURNED (INDIAN ATTACK)

signed CM Russell and inscribed with the artist's skull device and dated 1910 (lower left); and inscribed with title in another hand (on the reverse)

watercolor, gouache and pencil on paperboard

image: 16 ½ by 13 ¼ inches (41.9 by 33.7 cm)

paperboard: 19 ⅛ by 14 ⅜ inches (48.6 by 36.5 cm)

This watercolor is number CR.PC.8 in the online catalogue raisonné of the artist's work at www.russellraisonne .com .

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Private collection (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1998, lot 193)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Carrie Adell Strahorn, Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, New York, 1911, color halftone illustrated opp. p. 80