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Nov 6, 2017 - Nov 7, 2017
Charles M. Russell
(American, 1864-1926)
Pointing Out The Trail, circa. 1889
watercolor on paper
signed CM Russell with buffalo skull (lower left)
20 x 27 inches.
Estimate $ 100,000-150,000
Property from a Midwestern Museum
Provenance:
Charles J. Steedman
By descent to his son
Sold by the above: Sotheby's New York New York, May 25, 1988
Gerald J. Cooper
Acquired directly from the above by Peter M. Wege Collection, 2006
Gift from the above to the present owner
Illustrated:
C.M. Russell Catalogue Raisonne CR.UNL.424.
Steedman, Charles J., Bucking the Sage Brush: or The Oregon Trail in the Seventies, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, as frontispiece.
Peterson, Larry Len, Charles M. Russell Legacy: Printed and Published Works of Montana's Cowboy Artist, published by Twodot Books / C. M. Russell Museum, 1999, illus. # 3.104.
In overall good and stable condition. Slight foxing spots above the figures and in upper left quarter of the page as well as slight surface dirt . There is about 1 1/2 inch earlier mat residue on outer edge of sheet but does not appear in the image.
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