Lot 48
After Frederic Remington(1860-1909)The Sergeant 10 in. high
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Aaron Bastian
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After Frederic Remington (1860-1909)
The Sergeant
inscribed 'Frederic Remington' (along the base) and inscribed 'Copyright by Frederic Remington' and 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS INC. N.Y.' (on the reverse base), inscribed 'R.A.M. No. 1' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
10 in. high
Modeled in 1904; cast circa 1918-1920.
inscribed 'Frederic Remington' (along the base) and inscribed 'Copyright by Frederic Remington' and 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS INC. N.Y.' (on the reverse base), inscribed 'R.A.M. No. 1' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
10 in. high
Modeled in 1904; cast circa 1918-1920.
Footnotes
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 1987, lot 181A.
Private collection, New York, New York, from the above.
By family descent.
Literature
Bruce Wear, The Bronze World of Frederic Remington, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1966, pp. 76-77, 148, other examples illustrated.
Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, New York, 1966, p. 263, another example illustrated.
Peter Hassrick, Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections, New York, 1973, no. 87, p. 200, another example illustrated.
Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 147, another example illustrated.
Michael Edward Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 53, 114-15, other examples illustrated.
Michael Edward Shapiro and Peter Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, pp. 210-11, 224, 267, another example illustrated.
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Odgensburg, New York, 1996, pp. 113-15, 202, other examples illustrated.
This is an authorized Posthumous Cast produced circa 1918-1920 by the Remington Art Memorial (now The Frederic Remington Art Museum) from the original plaster mold prior to it being broken by order of Eva Remington's (1859-1918) will. Remington copyrighted the present work as Bust of a Rough Rider Sargeant (sic). He conceived this subject as a tribute to the cowboy-soldiers who volunteered in the Spanish-American War.
Saleroom notices
Please note that the present work was cast circa early 1950s.
