Untitled ("A New World Fable," headpiece, mounted Arab tossing rifle in air)
Alternate Title: An Arab
Date: 1893
Medium: pen and ink wash heightened with gouache on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01704
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 20 1/2 x 16" (52.1 x 40.6 cm)
Illustration: The Cosmopolitan (December 1893), p. 174, halftone.
Inscription: lower right: Frederic Remington./"[Plaisance]"/An arab.--
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/--"Plaisance"/An Arab.--
Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York), by 1975; private collection, 1975; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, 1998); present owner
Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.
