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Undiscovered Gems of the West - Day 3

Undiscovered Gems of the West - Day 3

Saturday, April 13, 2024  |  9:00 AM Mountain
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Undiscovered Gems of the West - Day 3

Undiscovered Gems of the West - Day 3

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Welcome to our Undiscovered Gems of the West sale. This four-day Auction has over 4000 lots to choose from.

Day 3:

Northwest Coast Haida Indian Masks, John Fery Glacier National Park Painting, Charles M Russell Original Paintings and Sculptures, Alaskan Iridium Ingot Bar, Margo Hoff Lute Player Painting, Dimitri Haralamb Chiparus Bronze, Bob Scriver Lewis Clark & Sacajawea Bronze, Glenda Maxey Goodacre Pawna Bronze, William Louis Sontag Yellowstone National Park Painting, Earle Erik Heikka Bronze Collection, Newhouse No 6 Bear Trap, William Bill Gollings Watercolor Painting, Thomas J Scott Racehorse Painting, Brooke Wetzel Painting, Todd Connor Paintings, The Yellowstone and the Great Geysers Book, Randy Van Beek Painting, Record Book Montana Bighorn Sheep Taxidermy Mount, Ruana Knife Collection, Russian Icon Given by Tzar Alexander, Harry Andrew Jackson Bronzes, Sheldon Parsons New Mexico Painting, Howard Terpning Drawing, Carl Rungius Moose Painting, Paul Troubetzkoy Terrier Dog Bronze, Hans Kleiber Paintings, Newman Myrah Paintings, Gary Carter Paintings,... Show more

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Harry Andrew Jackson Ropin' Cowboy Bronze

Harry Andrew Jackson Ropin' Cowboy Bronze

Lot # 751 (Sale Order: 751 of 1396)      

17 1/2" by 14 3/4" by 5 1/2". Dated 1959. Title is Ropin'. Harry Andrew Jackson (1924 - 2011) was active/lived in Wyoming, Illinois. Harry Jackson is known for Sculpture-...morewestern figure, horses. Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and sculpture and styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Realism. He was raised in a family where his mother ran a cafe near the Stockyards, and his father was a drunken, violent man. Jackson was often a truant from school and loved to wander around the Harding Museum looking at Frederic Remington bronzes or to hang out at his mother's cafe listening to stories from the cowboys who had brought their cattle by trains to the stockyards. A teacher noticed his art talent and got him a scholarship to the Chicago Art Institute's Saturday children's classes. At age 14, he ran away from home to Wyoming where he worked at a lumber company and on a ranch. He regarded these experiences as his spiritual awakening, and his art talents were reinforced by praise from his cowboy peers. In the late 1930s, he returned to Chicago and studied at the Frederick Mizen Academy, The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and The Chicago Art Institute. In 1942, he entered the Marine Corps and became close to a man who introduced him to the classics of literature. In 1943, at Tarawa, he had shrapnel head wounds that caused him epileptic seizures for most of the remainder of his life, and he also took two bullets to the leg at Saipan. He was then, at age 20, ordered back to the U.S. where he was appointed an Official Marine Corps Combat Artist, the youngest in Marine history. Following discharge, he worked as a radio actor and went to New York with the idea of meeting his hero, Jackson Pollock, whom in 1948 he found to be "a beautiful fantastic man." The two formed a lasting friendship, and Pollock introduced Jackson to Abstract Expressionism, which helped Jackson express his troubled background. Jackson married artist Grace Hartigan, his first of six wives, at Pollock's home with Pollock serving as best man. He also took classes at the Brooklyn Museum and studied with Rufino Tamayo and Hans Hofmann. The newlyweds went to Mexico and further explored abstraction, and a year later the couple divorced. Jackson did scenery painting for theatre and television, headed to Europe, and returned to New York where he did portrait painting and began to break away from Abstract Expressionism, something that met with disapproval from his peers. He had a Fulbright Travel Scholarship, did some heroic paintings in Denmark, and added sculpting to his repertoire, a medium inspired on March 4, 1958 when he arrived in Peitrasanta, Italy, where a new foundry gave him space. He remained in Italy for several years. In 1966, his entire output of western art was given the first one-man show at the new National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. By 1970, he was spending most of his time in Wyoming, becoming a resident of Cody, and was elected to the Cowboy Artists of America, but got "thrown out" because of his refusal to choose allegiances between it and the Cowboy Hall of Fame--entities that had had a major falling out.

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Robert Duffie Sleeping Coyote Bronze

Robert Duffie Sleeping Coyote Bronze

Lot # 752 (Sale Order: 752 of 1396)      

4 1/2" by 4" by 2 1/2". Robert Duffie (20th Century) was active/lived in United States. Robert Duffie is known for Sculpture....more

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Joe Halko Montana Mountain Fawn Deer Bronze

Joe Halko Montana Mountain Fawn Deer Bronze

Lot # 753 (Sale Order: 753 of 1396)      

4 3/8" by 3" by 1 5/8". Title is The Fawn. Joe Halko (1940 - 2009) was active/lived in Montana. Joe Halko is known for Wildlife sculpture, dioramist, landscape painting. ...moreJoe Halko grew up a student of nature of a ranch south of Great Falls, Montana. He learned the habits of the fox and the skunk, the crafty ways of the crows who nested in the same tree year after year, and whether the storm clouds held precious rain or dreaded hail. He built toy trucks and tractors out of leftovers from his father's shop and sculpted with clay out of the creek bank using ranch animals as models. He learned the basics of taxidermy from an uncle and so began his serious study of the anatomy of game birds and animals. Halko's first formal art education was Art Instruction, Inc. of Minneapolis, a correspondence course. After graduating from high school, he worked as a taxidermist in Great Falls and studied art at the University of Great Falls before he was drafted into the US Army. With that commitment complete, he took the train to New York to study art at the Fisk Studios and to work as a commercial artist for a Long Island advertising agency. He spent his free time there at the Museum of Natural History sketching the taxidermy mounts and the backgrounds. The school, work and big city museums were new and rewarding experiences, but the busy city was not where he wanted to be. He returned to Great Falls and earned his bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry - hoping for a career with the Forest Service or the Fish, Wildlife & Parks Department. Through all of this Halko had been studying painting and sculpting, and spending as much time as possible in the out of doors. As it turns out the taxidermy and the biology degree were solid preparations for Joe's career as a wildlife sculptor. His first serious sculptures were done as aids for painting - to study shadows, dimensions, and foreshortening. As he did more of these sculptures he found that he really enjoyed the sculpting, and it came easily for him. He continued his day work as a sought-after taxidermist doing sculpting on the side until 1976, when he turned to sculpting as his full-time occupation. He has been fortunate to have lived in Montana all of his life. He married Margaret also a Montana native in 1969, and they have two daughters who are now grown. There were many opportunities along the way to move to bigger cities and larger markets, to travel and participate in the so-called big time shows, but Halko wanted to live and to raise his family in the environment they all loved. They spent 17 years south of Cascade along the Missouri River where wildlife and bird life was abundant and much studied. In 1998 Joe and Margaret moved to Choteau, another beautiful spot in Montana. It is a picturesque Montana town along the east front of the Rocky Mountains with easy access to the rugged wilderness and numerous wildlife preserves.

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Earle Erik Heikka Country Doctor Bronze Montana

Earle Erik Heikka Country Doctor Bronze Montana

Lot # 754 (Sale Order: 754 of 1396)      

This is the first and only casting of this bronze known. Title is Country Doctor. Several Letters Attesting To its provenance and creation are included. 29 1/2" by 13 1/4...more" by 10 3/4". This bronze was initially cast from an original model of a piece positioned in a diorama titled "The Blessed Event" done by Heikka in approximately 1939. In 1963 Joe De Yong Charles M. Russell's only protege wrote a tribute to Earl E. Heikka, "What has received far less attention than deserved is the wholly untrained, yet artistically admirable quality of modeling that was produced in the all-too-short-lifetime of Earl Heikka of Great Falls." Heikka was born in Belt, Montana on May 3, 1910 to Finnish parents. When he was two years old, the family moved to Great Falls. He was only sixteen years-old when Charles Russell died, so it is uncertain how much time, if any, he observed Russell working in his studio in Great Falls. Like Russell, he learned a great deal about big game by hunting and packing. He also learned from spending time in Rumford’s Taxidermy Shop in Great Falls. Unfortunately, his most productive years were during the Great Depression when prices for all goods and services dropped dramatically. Spending on art for even the wealthy was greatly reduced until after WW II. Heikka worked with mainly water-based air drying clay known as Marblex and used solid wire armature anchored to a wooden base. Many of his models were then beautifully and finely painted before they were ready for sale. Best known for his pack train sculptures, often with a number of riders and horses that were designed for mantles in lodges, Heikka sculpted them as his tribute to Glacier National Park and the Rocky Mountains. His finest was Taking Up the Slack, and others included: Trophy Hunters, Bringing Home the Bacon, Sun River Packers, Hunter’s Return, Pack Train, Pack String, and Successful. He was also a master of predicament subjects such as Pursued. Heikka struggled for sales his entire shortened life. Like so many others during the brutal days of the Depression, he committed suicide on May 18, 1941 in Great Falls and left a young family behind. Only a number of years after he died were his models cast in bronze and his sculpting abilities better appreciated. Today, his sculptures are highly prized and collectible.

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Earle Erik Heikka Bear Bronze Montana

Earle Erik Heikka Bear Bronze Montana

Lot # 755 (Sale Order: 755 of 1396)      

6 1/2" by 5" by 4 5/8". Title is Black Bear. In 1963 Joe De Yong Charles M. Russell's only protege wrote a tribute to Earl E. Heikka, "What has received far less attentio...moren than deserved is the wholly untrained, yet artistically admirable quality of modeling that was produced in the all-too-short-lifetime of Earl Heikka of Great Falls." Heikka was born in Belt, Montana on May 3, 1910 to Finnish parents. When he was two years old, the family moved to Great Falls. He was only sixteen years-old when Charles Russell died, so it is uncertain how much time, if any, he observed Russell working in his studio in Great Falls. Like Russell, he learned a great deal about big game by hunting and packing. He also learned from spending time in Rumford’s Taxidermy Shop in Great Falls. Unfortunately, his most productive years were during the Great Depression when prices for all goods and services dropped dramatically. Spending on art for even the wealthy was greatly reduced until after WW II. Heikka worked with mainly water-based air drying clay known as Marblex and used solid wire armature anchored to a wooden base. Many of his models were then beautifully and finely painted before they were ready for sale. Best known for his pack train sculptures, often with a number of riders and horses that were designed for mantles in lodges, Heikka sculpted them as his tribute to Glacier National Park and the Rocky Mountains. His finest was Taking Up the Slack, and others included: Trophy Hunters, Bringing Home the Bacon, Sun River Packers, Hunter’s Return, Pack Train, Pack String, and Successful. He was also a master of predicament subjects such as Pursued. Heikka struggled for sales his entire shortened life. Like so many others during the brutal days of the Depression, he committed suicide on May 18, 1941 in Great Falls and left a young family behind. Only a number of years after he died were his models cast in bronze and his sculpting abilities better appreciated. Today, his sculptures are highly prized and collectible.

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CM Chip Jones Montana Bronze Grizzly Bear Track

CM Chip Jones Montana Bronze Grizzly Bear Track

Lot # 756 (Sale Order: 756 of 1396)      

10 1/2" by 9 7/8". Chip is a fifth generation Montanan, who has been working in the arts most of his life. He had his first art show while attending Montana State Univers...moreity in Bozeman in 1980. After earning a degree in Art education he went on to teach at both the elementary and high school level. He built his personal bronze foundry "Big Rock Bronze Works" in 1997 and has been creating his work there, ever since. This has allowed him to experiment with all methods of pouring bronze including the lost wax method, sand casting and open face plaster. He created a rustic line of hardware which has been sold in over 300 design shops and galleries across the country in 1998. His work can be found in all fifty states and many fine lodges abroad. He created a new technique of throwing the bronze into open faced molds in 2007. Using up to 15 iron ladles during a single pour, he creates heavily textured relief work that is both contemporary and recognizable. Chip has always considered himself a texturist and enjoys the affects he achieves by splashing, throwing and dribbling the 2300 degree metal into one of his custom made molds. He is also an avid outdoorsman and feels it is his responsibility to give back to the charitable organizations that help to protect the wild places for future generations. He has donated over 40 works in bronze to organizations such as; the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Trouts Unlimited, Pheasants Forever, Federation of North American Wild Sheep and many others. If he is not in his studio working on his next piece, you will surely find him tromping the mountain sides of Western Montana.

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Charles M Russell Bronze Smokin Up

Charles M Russell Bronze Smokin Up

Lot # 757 (Sale Order: 757 of 1396)      

12 7/8" by 9 5/8" by 6 1/4". Title is Smokin Up. Charles Marion Russell (1864 - 1926) was active/lived in Montana, California, Missouri. Charles Russell is known for Indi...morean-frontier genre painting, sculpture. Charles M. Russell, the nostalgic, held tight memories of a youthful past when the West belonged to God. There was a sense of loss, as poignant as losing a loved one. The specter of what this loss meant loomed over Russell the rest of his life. He was the quintessential nostalgic who grabbed history and married it to idealized memory and imagination. For example, despite Russell never witnessing a buffalo hunt, it became the basis for his most popular and desired art. Nancy Russell explained, "No man can be a painter without imagination." The Romantic art of the nineteenth century was the cornerstone to build the West reimagined for not only Russell, but also his contemporaries and future artists. No Western American artist fought back harder against racism, sexism, and championed environmentalism more than did Charles M. Russell. He thrived on imagining a time when the land was pristine, women were held in high regard, and people of color were the heroes. Paradoxically, the industrialized world championed just the opposite. To many, his life appeared odd—that cowboy hat, that sash, that unruly hair, that folksy talk. He and his art embraced an identity of an exile from a different place and time, which is even more appealing today. In that way, Russell was a visionary who instilled hope in all who saw his art, and his heart. For those reasons and much more, he is the most beloved of all the Western American artists. The Charles M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma in Norman; the Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West (books published by the University of Oklahoma University Press); the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Montana; the Russell Riders; and the Russell Skull Society are a testament to that fact. The Cowboy Artists of America have been called "The Sons of Charlie Russell" by art historian B. Byron Price for good reason. Russell was a legendary painter, sculptor, and author. Ever humble and self-effacing, as his fame skyrocketed, he never forgot his cowboy friends. The importance of his life and works is that no one has inspired more new generations of artists. Russell lived in the past and his wife Nancy who was his business manager lived for the future. How could a self-trained artist living in remote Montana become the highest paid artist in America? It’s quite a story. Charles Marion Russell was born on March 19, 1864 in St. Louis, Missouri, a bustling gateway to the West of some 200,000 people. Family history and adventure stories such as the Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper lured Russell to the West. On a crisp March day in 1880 Charles M. Russell jumped off the stagecoach in Helena, Montana Territory and took his turn as the latest easterner seeking western adventure. Accompanying him was Willis L.W. "Pike" Miller, a family acquaintance who acted as Russell’s guardian and gave him his first job in Montana on a sheep ranch Miller owned in the Judith Basin. While Miller was kind enough to chaperone Russell, they soon parted ways because Russell wanted nothing to do with sheepherding. For twelve years Russell and his horse Monte were together on the open range mainly nighthawking—somewhat of a lowly cowboy job of watching the horses overnight while the rest of the cowboys slept—until 1893 when Russell began transitioning from cowboy artist to full-time artist. Only a teenager, Russell was younger than most cowboys who were usually in their early twenties but shared with them the qualities of being gregarious, humble, energetic and adventuresome. Charlie saw the cowboy as the last frontiersman—unlike the colorless overburdened farmer and sheep herder. The period from 1906 to 1910 was one of the most productive and enjoyable times of Charlie’s life, which in no small part was due to the summers at Bull Head Lodge and the mentoring by others such as Philip R. Goodwin who visited him there in 1907 and 1910. Glacier National Park has the type of views that keep postcard publishers in business. The mountains fanned the flames of Charlie Russell’s creative genius. He understood that the mountains don’t need us, we need the mountains. Charlie’s favorite place in the world was the lodge, a log structure nestled among the cedar, fir, and tamarack along the shoreline of beautiful Lake McDonald. The years from 1911 to 1915 were a time of artistic achievement by Russell and promotion by Nancy who was as skilled as any field general with her well planned exhibitions in America, Canada, and England. It would be a grueling pace for the duo, but one that would yield a bountiful harvest of financial and critical success. The cowboy arti

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Bob Scriver Buffalo Skull Plaster Model

Bob Scriver Buffalo Skull Plaster Model

Lot # 758 (Sale Order: 758 of 1396)      

5 5/8" by 5" by 1 5/8". This is the plaster model used to cast the bronze. Bob (Robert Macfie) Scriver (1914 - 1999) was active/lived in Montana. Bob Scriver is known for...more Animal and western sculpture. Bob Scriver was an elected member in both the Cowboy Artists of America organization and the National Academy of Western Art. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club and was accepted for membership in the National Sculpture Society. Scriver created heroic sculptures in Montana of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, and in Wyoming of the legendary Buffalo Bill. His Cowboy works include a heroic work of Bill Linderman at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma and his "Rodeo In Bronze" series, one of four belonging to the Devonian Institute in Canada. Scriver was commissioned to do such pieces as a Montana Trapper and belt buckle for the Montana Historical Society to help raise funds to purchase the C.M. Russell painting, When the Land Belonged to God, which raised $96,000.00. In 1981, for the Winchester Arms Company, he was also commissioned to do a famous logo called, The Winchester Rider. This set a new record for contemporary sculptors with gross sales totaling over one million dollars. This edition of 250 was completely sold out in 30 days from the time of National advertising. Scriver's art depicts a sense of freedom that has been lost by the Indian and is seemingly being lost by the cowboy. The Late Dr. Harold McCracken, Director Emeritus of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, was quoted in the forward of Scriver's book NO MORE BUFFALO as calling Scriver: "America's foremost sculptor today-bar none". Scriver died January 29,1999. He has left behind him stories, and dreams of the West....in bronze.

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Pierre Jules (PJ) Mene Whippet Gigi Dog Bronze

Pierre Jules (PJ) Mene Whippet Gigi Dog Bronze

Lot # 759 (Sale Order: 759 of 1396)      

7 1/4" by 6 3/4" by 4 3/4". Title is Whippet Gigi. Purchased at Detroit Kennel Club 1976. Pierre Jules (P.J.) Mene (1810 - 1879) was active/lived in France. Pierre Jules ...moreMene is known for Realistic animal sculpture, dogs, horses, wildlife. Pierre Jules Mene, (P. J. Mene), was born in Paris in March of 1810 and died in Paris at number 9 Rue de L'Entrepot on May 21, 1879. The son of a metal turner, he received his earliest teaching on sculpture and foundry work from his father, and he opened his own foundry in the 1850s, creating lost-wax castings of his sculptures in bronze. Although mostly self-taught, Mene was encouraged by sculptor Rene Compaire, and was also influenced by two painters: Edwin Landseer of England with his expressive sentimentality, as well as Carle Vernet of France, in capturing spirit, grace and compositional beauty in sculptural form. Much of Mene's early studies were made at the "Jardin des Plantes" in Paris, where he developed great talent for animal sculpture. He first exhibited the bronze statuette entitled Dog and Fox at the Paris Salon in 1838, and from that time exhibited regularly until his death. He received four awards from the Paris Salon: Second Class in 1848, First Class in 1852 and 1861, and a Third Class award in 1855. Mene did not sculpt statues, but rather bronze statuettes generally of domestic and farm animals at rest, (horses, dogs, cows, bulls, sheep and goats). He modeled over 150 subjects, and received the "Cross of the Legion of Honor" in 1861. He exhibited in England at the Great Expositions of 1855, 1867 and 1878, where he was praised as the "Landseer" of sculpture. P. J. Mene was one of the most prolific and popular sculptors of the Animalier School, as well as one of it's earliest pioneers. His sculptures were widely collected by the public. His only sculpture acquired by the State of France during his lifetime was the bronze Mounted Huntsman and His Hounds. Charming and charismatic, Mene was accepted socially within the various French artistic communities. Mene's earliest works, (such as Tiger and Alligator), reflected Antoine-Louis Barye's influence, but in contrast with the romantic style of Barye, Mene's style evolved in a contrasting way. He excelled in realistic portrayals of animals, sculpting each in their natural habitat, capturing fleeting movements and delicate details. Generally, his sculptures were portraits with a hint of human personality. Mene was praised for his "perfection in modeling the figures of animals, and for the truth and beauty of his representations." He worked in the Juste Milieu, blending romantic and naturalist elements while retaining a degree of traditionalism. Mene's casts were of the highest quality and patinas. The last cast of an addition was edited as sharply as the first, and he was meticulous in the after work of his bronze casts, chiseling extremely fine details. His bronzes were signed in block letters "P. J. Mene" with no foundry marks. He taught his son-in-law, Auguste Cain, who continued Mene's foundries from 1879 to 1892. Subsequently, Mene's models were sold to the Susse Freres Foundry which cast well into the 20th century. Many recasts have been produced.

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Jules Moigniez Setter with Hare Dog Bronze

Jules Moigniez Setter with Hare Dog Bronze

Lot # 760 (Sale Order: 760 of 1396)      

5 1/2" by 3 1/8" by 2 1/8". Title is Setter with Hare. Purchased in 1974 for $650. Jules Moigniez (1835 - 1894) was active/lived in France. Jules Moigniez is known for Br...moreonze sculptures of birds, horses, and dogs. Jules Moigniez was born in Senlis sur L'Oise, France in 1835 and died in Saint-Martin-du-Teire, France on May 29, 1894. The son of a metal gilder, Moigniez was a student of Paul Comolera. He debuted at the Exposition Universelle in 1855 with Pointer and Pheasant and Falcon and Weasel each in plaster. He contributed regularly to the Paris Salon from 1859 to 1892 during which he exhibited over thirty sculptures including Pointer and Pheasant and Falcon and Weasel in bronze. He was awarded an honorable mention at the Salon and received a medal in London at the Great Exposition in 1862. He lived most of his life in Paris. During his career he was widely popular in France, England and America. His bronzes were most decorative, particularly those of game birds. He also sculpted dogs, farm animals and equestrian groups. Moigniez's dogs reflected the "naturalism" style of Pierre Jules Mene. His bird sculptures were reminiscent of paintings by deHondecoeter, Casteels and Snyders. His sculptures of birds reflect dynamic movement, as if captured through a high-speed photographic portrait. Moigniez bronzes were edited, (cast), by the foundry his father opened in 1857. A wide variety of patinations, including silver plate, golden bronze and gilding were unique to these lifetime casts. After his death, most of his bronzes were cast by A. Gouge, who also edited most of Comolera's sculptures.

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Paul Petrovich Troubetzkoy Terrier Dog Bronze

Paul Petrovich Troubetzkoy Terrier Dog Bronze

Lot # 761 (Sale Order: 761 of 1396)      

7 3/8" by 5 5/8" by 3". Title is Terrier. Purchased from Etcetera Antiques in Saginaw Michigan 1973 for $650. Paul Petrovich Troubetzkoy (1866 - 1938) was active/lived in...more California, New York / Russian Federation, Italy, France. Paul Troubetzkoy is known for Small scale figure and monumental sculpture and portrait painting. Paolo or Paul Troubetzkoy was an artist and a sculptor of Russia's Troubetzkoy princely family, who was described by G.B. Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times". He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy. He was a self taught artist, although he learned sculpture from Giuseppe Grandi. He is associated with impressionism, due to his ability to grasp sketchy movements in his bronze works. He "portraited" the society of the Belle Epoque. Few of his bronzes are still available in the market. Quite famous is the 35 cm high portrait of Costance Stewart Richardson called The Dancer. The largest and best known of his works is the monumental equestrian statue of the Russian Tsar Alexander III in St. Petersburg, Russia. The monument was opened in 1909 on the Nevsky Prospekt near the Moskovsky Vokzal terminal. After the Russian revolution of 1917, the Soviet government removed the monument from the main street to the backyard of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the monument to Tsar Alexander III was placed in front of the Marble Palace near the embankment of the Neva river. Troubetzkoy was a vegetarian. His vegetarian friend Bernard Shaw remarked: "Troubetzkoy is a gigantic and terrifying humanitarian who can do anything with an animal except eat it". Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of the great novelist Leo Tolstoy wrote in her father's biography: "From time to time he posed - a tiring obligation - for painters and sculptors: for Repin, Pasternak who did a study of the family, Aronson, and Paolo Trubetskoy. Trubetskoy, a Russian educated in Italy, did some splendid little statues of Tolstoy - one of him on horseback. Father was very fond of him. A sweet and childlike person in addition to his great gifts, he read practically nothing, spoke little, all his life was wrapped up in sculpture. As a convinced vegetarian he would not eat meat but cried: "Je ne mange pas de cadavre!" if anyone offered him some. In his studio in St. Petersburg there was a whole zoo: a bear, a fox, a horse, and a vegetarian wolf."

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Alfred Dubucand Bloodhounds Dog Bronze

Alfred Dubucand Bloodhounds Dog Bronze

Lot # 762 (Sale Order: 762 of 1396)      

5 7/8" by 4 1/2" by 2 7/8". Purchased from Etcetera Antiques 1974. Alfred Dubucand (1828 - 1894) was active/lived in France. Alfred Dubucand is known for Sculpture, small...more scale animals, portrait bust, Arabs riding on camels. Alfred Dubucand was born in Paris, France in 1828. In Paris, Alfred studied sculpture with Justin-Marie Lequien and Antoine-Louis Barye. Alfred Dubucand is one of the representatives of romantic realism. He mainly created small-scale animal bronzes, mostly depicting dogs, horses, or game. Alfred also sculpted portrait busts, and scenes with camel-riding Arabs. From 1867 through 1883, Alfred exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon. Alfred Dubucand died in 1894 in France.

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Antoine-Louis Barye Dog with Duck Bronze

Antoine-Louis Barye Dog with Duck Bronze

Lot # 763 (Sale Order: 763 of 1396)      

4 3/8" by 2 7/8" by 2 3/4". Title is Dog with Duck. Purchased in 1973 for $806 from Beverly Cricow Etcetera Antiques. Antoine-Louis Barye (1796 - 1875) was active/lived i...moren France. Antoine Louis Barye is known for Animalier sculpture. The son of a goldsmith, Parisian born Antoine-Louis Bayre was a sculptor of animal subjects and acclaimed, not only for his apparent skill, but as the founder of what became known as the French Animaliers School. Among his patrons were representatives of the state government and royalty including the Duke of Orleans and the Dukes of Luynes, Montpensier and Nemours. Well compensated financially, he was able to buy the best of materials and hire the country's most skilled foundry craftsmen. The foundry he hired was owned by Ferdinand Barbedienne, and casts from this period were stamped with the letters, FB. However, he did not make a lot of money from his work because he was such a perfectionist that often he would not sell his work because he thought it was not 'quite right'. In 1848, he declared bankruptcy, and his molds and plaster casts were sold along with the copyrights. Bayre's specialty was aroused, angry seeming wild game such as lions and tigers and elephants, but he also did equestrian groups and mythology figures. In order to do realistic depictions of animal anatomy, he spent much time at the Jardin de Plantes in Paris. His early training was as an apprentice to a metal engraver, but being drafted in the army in 1812, ended that education. In 1832, he had established his own studio, and unique at that time was his method of cold stamping his bronze casts, so that each one had a special number. He had his first entry, The Milo of Croton, in the Paris Salon in 1819, winning a second prize. In 1831, a work regarded as a masterpiece, Tiger Devouring a Gavial, was in the Salon, and purchased for the Luxembourg Gardens, is now in the Louvre. However, many of his subsequent Salon submissions were rejected and so angered him that between 1836 and 1851, he refused to submit entries. In 1851, he again exhibited at the Salon with Jaguar Devouring A Hare, and this work, like the 1831 entry, was placed in the Luxembourg Gardens and eventually in the Louvre. In spite of problems with the Salon, Bayre received many accolades for his work, and the period of 1837 to 1848 was considered the most productive time of his career. However, in 1848, when he lost control of his work and it was reproduced by others including Martin and Barbedienne, the sculptures, according to some art professionals, are not as skillfully executed---in other words, devoid of the perfection he strove so hard to achieve. In 1848, after his bankruptcy, Barye became Director of Casts and Models in the Louvre, until 1850, when he was replaced by Emmanuel Fremiet. It was a very difficult time for him. However, within a few years, he began receiving accolades for the quality and uniqueness of his work, and people began appreciating the powerful images of his sculpture---especially the wildlife in their natural surroundings. In 1854, he was appointed Master of Zoological Drawing in the Musee d'Histore Naturelle, and held this position until his death in 1875. There one of his pupils was Auguste Rodin, who would become a revolutionary modernist sculptor of figure and portrait subjects. By 1857, Bayre was recovered financially and resumed controlled of his casts and models. Although he continued with his former subject matter, the many state commissions he received took most of his creative energy. He also received many official honors such as Officer in the Legion d'Honneur, first presidency of the Central Union of Beaux Arts, Grand Medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and membership in the Institute of France. His work as a sculptor ended in 1869 when he was 73, and after his death, six years later, Ferdinand Barbedienne purchased most of his plasters and molds. Barbedienne, who was Bayre's original foundry owner and who had accommodated the perfection demanded by the sculptor, continued casting bronzes. These posthumous works reportedly have the same meticulous attention to detailing that Bayre would have demanded.

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Raymond Gayrard Recumbent Deerhound Dog Bronze

Raymond Gayrard Recumbent Deerhound Dog Bronze

Lot # 764 (Sale Order: 764 of 1396)      

7 5/8" by 4" by 3". Title is Recumbent Deerhound. Raymond Gayrard (1777 - 1858) was active/lived in France. Raymond Gayrard is known for Sculpture....more

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Edouard-Marcel Sandoz Reclining Great Dane Bronze

Edouard-Marcel Sandoz Reclining Great Dane Bronze

Lot # 765 (Sale Order: 765 of 1396)      

5 7/8" by 2 1/8" by 2 1/8". Title is Chien danois (Great Dane). Bought in Athens Greece 1974 for $240. Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881 - 1971) was active/lived in Switzerland...more. Edouard Marcel Sandoz is known for Animal sculpture, porcelain anamalier. Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881 - 1971) was born in Basle, Switzerland on March 21, 1881. After studying chemistry, Sandoz decided to turn to sculpture. He studied for three years at the L'Ecole de Industrial Arts in Geneva and then moved to Paris where he studied at the Ecole d'Beaux-Arts. He apprenticed under the sculptor Antonin Mercie and the painter Ferdinand Cormon. During the First World War, due to the shortage of stone and bronze, Sandoz turned to porcelain for his sculptures and thus began his thirty year association with the Haviland Limoge company. This collaboration produced many distinctive highly stylized objects in the form of dogs, cats, rabbits, fish, and even hedgehogs done in porcelain with bright colored glazes. All of his sculptures are characterized by a geometric form, which is strongly influenced by both the Art Nouveau* and Art Deco* styles. He was elected a member of L'Academie de Beaux Arts and made a Commander in L'Order de Legion d'Honneur. Sandoz's sculptures show a unique and lively personal style and place him firmly at the top of the 20th century Animaliers* along with Francois Pompon and Rembrandt Bugatti.

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Pierre Jules (PJ) Mene Greyhound Dog Bronze

Pierre Jules (PJ) Mene Greyhound Dog Bronze

Lot # 766 (Sale Order: 766 of 1396)      

11 3/4" by 8 3/4" by 4 5/8". Title is Greyhound Levrier Espagnol. Purchased in 1973 from Joseph and Pierson Interiors Grand Blanc Michigan for $266.65. Pierre Jules (P.J....more) Mene (1810 - 1879) was active/lived in France. Pierre Jules Mene is known for Realistic animal sculpture, dogs, horses, wildlife. Pierre Jules Mene, (P. J. Mene), was born in Paris in March of 1810 and died in Paris at number 9 Rue de L'Entrepot on May 21, 1879. The son of a metal turner, he received his earliest teaching on sculpture and foundry work from his father, and he opened his own foundry in the 1850s, creating lost-wax castings of his sculptures in bronze. Although mostly self-taught, Mene was encouraged by sculptor Rene Compaire, and was also influenced by two painters: Edwin Landseer of England with his expressive sentimentality, as well as Carle Vernet of France, in capturing spirit, grace and compositional beauty in sculptural form. Much of Mene's early studies were made at the "Jardin des Plantes" in Paris, where he developed great talent for animal sculpture. He first exhibited the bronze statuette entitled Dog and Fox at the Paris Salon in 1838, and from that time exhibited regularly until his death. He received four awards from the Paris Salon: Second Class in 1848, First Class in 1852 and 1861, and a Third Class award in 1855. Mene did not sculpt statues, but rather bronze statuettes generally of domestic and farm animals at rest, (horses, dogs, cows, bulls, sheep and goats). He modeled over 150 subjects, and received the "Cross of the Legion of Honor" in 1861. He exhibited in England at the Great Expositions of 1855, 1867 and 1878, where he was praised as the "Landseer" of sculpture. P. J. Mene was one of the most prolific and popular sculptors of the Animalier School, as well as one of it's earliest pioneers. His sculptures were widely collected by the public. His only sculpture acquired by the State of France during his lifetime was the bronze Mounted Huntsman and His Hounds. Charming and charismatic, Mene was accepted socially within the various French artistic communities. Mene's earliest works, (such as Tiger and Alligator), reflected Antoine-Louis Barye's influence, but in contrast with the romantic style of Barye, Mene's style evolved in a contrasting way. He excelled in realistic portrayals of animals, sculpting each in their natural habitat, capturing fleeting movements and delicate details. Generally, his sculptures were portraits with a hint of human personality. Mene was praised for his "perfection in modeling the figures of animals, and for the truth and beauty of his representations." He worked in the Juste Milieu, blending romantic and naturalist elements while retaining a degree of traditionalism. Mene's casts were of the highest quality and patinas. The last cast of an addition was edited as sharply as the first, and he was meticulous in the after work of his bronze casts, chiseling extremely fine details. His bronzes were signed in block letters "P. J. Mene" with no foundry marks. He taught his son-in-law, Auguste Cain, who continued Mene's foundries from 1879 to 1892. Subsequently, Mene's models were sold to the Susse Freres Foundry which cast well into the 20th century. Many recasts have been produced.

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Dave Hodges Golden Descent Bronze

Dave Hodges Golden Descent Bronze

Lot # 767 (Sale Order: 767 of 1396)      

6 1/4" by 5" by 3 1/2". Title is Golden Descent. Dave Hodges (Born 1949) is active/lives in Montana. Dave Hodges is known for Horse sculpture, western landscape painter. ...moreDave Hodges graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana in 1979. He began sculpting as a career in 1982 and has been commissioned to create sculptures for several large corporations as gifts to their international clients. Articles on his work have been published in Southwest Art , Western Horseman, and Texas Longhorn Trails magazines. Dave is also an oil painter of landscapes of the western region and is a founding member of the Montana Painters Alliance, Painters of the Big Sky, and a member of the Montana Professional Artists Association. AWARDS & RECOGNITION His work has received awards at the following shows: Willamette Western Art Show, Salem, OR; American National Miniature Show, Laramie, WY; Western Regional Art Show, Cheyenne, WY; National Miniature Show, La Luz, NM. He created a bust of past director of flight operations for the Northwest Airline Flight Training Center in Minneapolis, and a bust of international opera star, Marilyn Horne, for the Bradford Branch of the University of Pittsburgh. His life-size statue of a running horse, Free Spirit, permanently enhances the City Park in Big Timber, Montana. A private commission life-size statue of a cow and calf can also be seen in Big Timber, Montana. He was chosen by the Montana Arts Council to make the White House Christmas tree ornament for the State of Montana in 2002. The sculpture Fancy Footwork, owned by former President Ronald Reagan, is permanently displayed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA, and is featured in the library brochure. EXHIBITIONS & SHOWS His horse sculptures have been exhibited through several American Academy of Equine Artists shows, most recently the Wild Horses exhibit at the Wildlife Experience in Parker, CO in Jan. 2003 and Jan. 2004.

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Dave Hodges Buffalo Skull Bronze

Dave Hodges Buffalo Skull Bronze

Lot # 768 (Sale Order: 768 of 1396)      

4 3/4" by 4 1/8" by 3 7/8". Title is Miniature Buffalo Skull. Dave Hodges (Born 1949) is active/lives in Montana. Dave Hodges is known for Horse sculpture, western landsc...moreape painter. Dave Hodges graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana in 1979. He began sculpting as a career in 1982 and has been commissioned to create sculptures for several large corporations as gifts to their international clients. Articles on his work have been published in Southwest Art , Western Horseman, and Texas Longhorn Trails magazines. Dave is also an oil painter of landscapes of the western region and is a founding member of the Montana Painters Alliance, Painters of the Big Sky, and a member of the Montana Professional Artists Association. AWARDS & RECOGNITION His work has received awards at the following shows: Willamette Western Art Show, Salem, OR; American National Miniature Show, Laramie, WY; Western Regional Art Show, Cheyenne, WY; National Miniature Show, La Luz, NM. He created a bust of past director of flight operations for the Northwest Airline Flight Training Center in Minneapolis, and a bust of international opera star, Marilyn Horne, for the Bradford Branch of the University of Pittsburgh. His life-size statue of a running horse, Free Spirit, permanently enhances the City Park in Big Timber, Montana. A private commission life-size statue of a cow and calf can also be seen in Big Timber, Montana. He was chosen by the Montana Arts Council to make the White House Christmas tree ornament for the State of Montana in 2002. The sculpture Fancy Footwork, owned by former President Ronald Reagan, is permanently displayed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA, and is featured in the library brochure. EXHIBITIONS & SHOWS His horse sculptures have been exhibited through several American Academy of Equine Artists shows, most recently the Wild Horses exhibit at the Wildlife Experience in Parker, CO in Jan. 2003 and Jan. 2004.

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Rudy RH Ruana Bonner Montana Bowie Knife 40A M

Rudy RH Ruana Bonner Montana Bowie Knife 40A M

Lot # 769 (Sale Order: 769 of 1396)      

M Stamped. Rare Early bowie. 14 3/4" long....more

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Rudy RH Ruana Bonner Montana Asterix Stamp Knife

Rudy RH Ruana Bonner Montana Asterix Stamp Knife

Lot # 770 (Sale Order: 770 of 1396)      

This is the only one you will ever have a chance to buy. There were only 12 of these made in 1943. This one survives with its original sheath. This is one of the holy gra...moreil knives for Ruana collectors. 8 7/8" long. Square cut, three pin.

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Ruana Bonner Montana Reliable Knife

Ruana Bonner Montana Reliable Knife

Lot # 771 (Sale Order: 771 of 1396)      

Rare short lived model called The Reliable. Never used or carried. 8 1/4" long....more

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Ruana Bonner Montana 10b Smokejumper Knife

Ruana Bonner Montana 10b Smokejumper Knife

Lot # 772 (Sale Order: 772 of 1396)      

Never used or carried. 6 1/2" long....more

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Ruana Bonner Montana 10b Smokejumper Knife

Ruana Bonner Montana 10b Smokejumper Knife

Lot # 773 (Sale Order: 773 of 1396)      

Never used or carried. 6 1/2" long....more

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Ruana Bonner Montana Steelhead Fisherman's Knife

Ruana Bonner Montana Steelhead Fisherman's Knife

Lot # 774 (Sale Order: 774 of 1396)      

Never used or carried. 8" long. Factory 2nd with flaw in aluminum bolster....more

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Ruana Bonner Montana Knife 21a Deluxe

Ruana Bonner Montana Knife 21a Deluxe

Lot # 775 (Sale Order: 775 of 1396)      

Never used or carried. 9 1/2" long....more

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