Visions of the West: The William I. Koch Collection Day Sale

FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)

Los 111

21.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00

Classic

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$ 635 000

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ID 1536583

Los 111 | FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)

Schätzwert

$ 250 000 – 350 000

FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)
The Mountain Man
inscribed 'Copyright by/Frederic Remington' (on the base)—inscribed with foundry mark 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the base)—inscribed 'No. 52' (beneath the base)
bronze with black patina
28 ½ in. (72.4 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1903.

Provenance

Charles J. Ahern, New York.
Mrs. Arthur Dunn, New Jersey.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 20 April 1979, lot 134.
Private collection, Los Angeles, California.
Christie's, New York, 31 May 1985, lot 123, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

H. McCracken, Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West, New York, 1947, n.p., pl. 44, another example illustrated.
A.T. Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1965, pp. 74-75, no. 07.79, another example illustrated.
H. McCracken, Frederic Remington: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, New York, 1966, p. 263, fig. 370, another example illustrated.
The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1967, n.p., no. 47, another example illustrated (as The Mountaineer (The Mountain Man)).
P.H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections, New York, 1973, pp. 194-95, another example illustrated.
P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pp. 124, 125, 159-60, pl. 121, another example illustrated.
B. Wear, The 2nd Bronze World of Frederic Remington, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, 1976, pp. 72-73, 107, pl. 9, J-2, another example illustrated.
Frederic Remington (1861-1909): Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Collection of the R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1979, pp. 74-75, nos. 51-53, other examples illustrated.
Denver Art Museum, Frederic Remington: The Late Years, exhibition catalogue, Denver, Colorado, 1981, p. 60, another example illustrated.
M.E. Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 52, 77-81, 106, figs. 33, 69-74, other examples illustrated.
M.E. Shapiro, P.H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, pp. 204-05, 210-11, 214, pl. 57, another example illustrated.
J.K. Ballinger, Frederic Remington, New York, 1989, p. 110, another example illustrated.
M.D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Ogdensburg, New York, 1996, pp. 31, 105-12, 192, other examples illustrated.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Remington: The Years of Critical Acclaim, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1998, pp. 104-05, another example illustrated.
T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume I, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865, New York, 1999, pp. 384-86, no. 166, another example illustrated.
E.B. Neff, W.H. Phelan, Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, 2000, pp. 27, 61n6, another example referenced.
B. Dippie, The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection, Ogdensburg, New York, 2001, pp. 140-41, another example illustrated.
T. Tolles, The American West in Bronze: 1850-1925, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2013, pp. 125-27, 162, figs. 157-58, another example illustrated.

Exhibited

Wichita, Kansas, Wichita Art Museum, A Personal Gathering: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of William I. Koch, February 11-May 19, 1996, pp. 128, 131, no. 60, illustrated.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch, August 31-November 13, 2005, pp. 108, 114, illustrated.

Künstler:	Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909)
Angewandte Technik:	Metallkonstruktion
Material:	Bronze
Kategorie des Auktionshauses:	Skulpturen, Skulpturen, Statuen & Figuren

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