Frederic Remington

Broncho Buster

Auction Closed

January 18, 06:09 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Kentucky Family Collection

Frederic Remington

1861 - 1909

Broncho Buster

inscribed Frederic Remington (on the base); numbered 49 (within the first initial on the base); inscribed The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co Founders. NY. 1899 (on the base); inscribed Copyrighted by / Frederic Remington 1895 (along the base); and numbered 49 (beneath the base)

bronze

height: 22 in.

55.9 cm.

Copyrighted in 1895; cast circa 1899.

Private Collection, Louisville, Kentucky (acquired circa 1900)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Bruce Wear, The Bronze World of Frederic Remington, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1966, p. 56, another example listed

Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, New York, 1966, no. 360, pp. 255-56, another example illustrated p. 255

Peter H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections, New York, 1973, pl. 77, p. 181, another example illustrated

Michael Edward Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 63, 67, 69, another example illustrated no. 44, p. 64

Michael Edward Shapiro & Peter H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, pp. 66, 172, 186, 194-95, 206-07, 210, 223, other examples illustrated pl. 47, p. 172

Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Ogdensburg, New York, 1996, pp. 51-64, 172, other examples illustrated pp. 52, 57

Thayer Tolles and Thomas Bent Smith, The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925, New York, 2013, pp. 5, 17, 91, 93-94, 99-100, 107, 120, 162, other examples illustrated fig. 1, p. 2, fig. 2, p. 4