Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection

Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Karl Bodmer

The Buffalo Hunt

Auction Closed

April 20, 09:25 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Karl Bodmer

1809 - 1893

The Buffalo Hunt


stamped with the artist's estate stamp vente K. Bodmer (lower right)

ink and pencil on paper

9½ x 16½ in. (24.1 x 41.7 cm.)

Private Collection (acquired by descent directly from the artist)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 27-28, 1894, lot 175 (consigned by the above)
Schweitzer Gallery, New York
Sotheby Parke-Bernet New York, April 19, 1972, lot 115 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0115 (acquired from the above)
Alexander Philip Maximilian von Wied, Travels in the Interior of North America, translated by H. Evans Lloyd, London, 1843, pl. 31, pp. 303, 385 (as Indians on Horseback Hunting the Buffalo)

Denver, Denver Art Museum, The Western Frontier, 1966 (not included in catalogue)