Lot 36
  • 36

Charles Schreyvogel 1861 - 1912

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Schreyvogel
  • The Last Drop
  • inscribed copyrighted 1903 by Chas Schreyvogel with the Roman Bronze Works N.Y. foundry mark on base and numbered 16. underneath the base
  • bronze with a golden brown patina
  • Height: 12 in.
  • (30.5 cm)

Provenance

Dr. S.D. Van Meter, Denver, Colorado (gift from the artist in appreciation for surgery performed by the doctor)
Marguerite H. Claffey, Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1933 (bequest from the above)
By descent in the family to private collection, 1972 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 24, 2001, lot 178, illustrated in color)
J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Private collection, Redding, California, 2001
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

St. Louis, Missouri, World's Fair, 1903

Literature

James D. Horan, The Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel: Painter-Historian of the Indian Fighting Army of the American West, New York, 1969, p. 27, illustration of another example p. 39
Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 205, illustrations of other examples, pls. 205-206, pp. 203-204

Condition

Very good condition.
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