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Lot 79
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Frederic Remington 1861 - 1909

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Frederic Remington
  • Bronco Buster
  • inscribed Frederic Remington with the Roman Bronze Works N.Y. foundry mark and numbered No. 52 beneath the base
  • bronze, dark brown patina
  • height: 23 1/4 inches
  • (59.0 cm)

Provenance

Property of a Western Collector (sold: Sotheby's New York, May 24, 1990, lot 111, illustrated in color)
Private Collection
J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York
R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001

Literature

Bruce Wear, The Bronze World of Frederic Remington, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1966, p. 56, illustration of another example p. 57
Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, New York, 1966, p. 255, illustration of another example fig. 360
Peter H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections, New York, 1973, no. 76, p. 181, illustration of another example in color p. 180
Michael Edward Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 63-69, 93, illustrations of other examples figs. 45, 47-51, 54
Michael Edward Shapiro and Peter H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, pp. 66, 195, 206-207, 210, 211, 214, illustrations of other examples in color pl. 48, 49
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Ogdensburg, New York, 1996, pp. 51-64, 175, 181, illustrations of other examples in color pp. 58-62