Lot 37
  • 37

Frederic Remington 1861 - 1909

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Frederic Remington
  • A Critical Moment
  • signed Frederic Remington (lower right)

  • oil en grisaille on canvas

  • 25 1/2 by 24 inches
  • (64.8 by 61 cm)
  • Painted in 1902.

Provenance

Smith and Wesson, Bangor Punta Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1902 (commissioned from the artist)

Exhibited

Cody, Wyoming, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Special Exhibition, Loans and New Acquisitions, May-October 1970, no. 40
Cody, Wyoming, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Remington Retrospective in Honor of Harold McCracken, May-October 1974

Literature

Collier's Weekly, October 18, 1902, illustrated
Peggy and Harold Samuels, Remington: The Complete Prints, New York, 1990, no. 79, illustrated pp. 63, 74
Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster, Frederic Remington:  A Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. II, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, no. 2688, p. 765, illustrated

Condition

Good condition, lined; under UV: small scattered lines of inpainting across the sky.
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