Double Page 1902 Remington Prints, Mexican Monte & More

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CLEARANCE | Ancient & Ethnographic Art

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Jul 8, 2021

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  Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909). "Mexican Monte" hand colored print, 1902. Signed "Frederic Remington Ignacio - Col." on the lower left in the plate. In this hand-colored print Frederic Remington depicts a group of cowboys and indigenous peoples playing three card Mexican Monte, a Spanish gambling card game known as the national card game of Mexico during the 19th century. Below is a poem by American writer and historian Owen Wister (1860-1938) (see Wister's verse in the extended description below). "Mexican Monte" was published in "Done in the Open" by Frederick Remington in 1902. Remington's trip to Mexico in 1889 provided a wealth of firsthand material for the art that he later created in his US studio, including this large-scale, double-page print with brilliant details and hand coloring. Size of image: 12.125" L x 20" W (30.8 cm x 50.8 cm) Size of double page: 16" L x 22" W (40.6 cm x 55.9 cm)
  
  Owen Wister's verses below "Mexican Monte" read as follows:
  
  "We take life easy with a will,
  
  Do I and my young foreman, Bill;
  
  Daily we find at every hand Agreeable methods to expand.
  
  With redskin maidens we romance,
  
  We play their brothers games of chance;
  
  For by this means, as can be shown, Much that was theirs becomes our own."
  
  
  
  On the verso of "Mexican Monte" is another 2 page spread with an action-packed Remington image accompanied by a depiction of a mustachioed man's head in profile, donning a hat and smoking a pipe, with the following dramatic prose by Owen Wister:
  
  "LIVE AND LET DIE!
  
  The pit is come from underground,
  
  Satan himself is out of breath;
  
  He links the marksman to his mark
  
  With the hyphen-flash of death."
  
  Frederic Remington's "Done in the Open" is a book that featured over 70 prints, most of which were black and white, except for the double-page centerpiece. Each image was accompanied by Owen Wister's dramatic verses.
  
  Provenance: private S. D. collection, Louisville, Colorado, USA
  
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  #165636

  Condition

  Centerfold mark. A couple of minute tears, creases, and impressed marks to peripheries of the margins that do not impact the images. Details, text, and hand coloring are vivid. There are some notes in pencil on the black and white side.
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