"His Huge Antagonist Was Held Still By a Wonder That Was Born Half of Admiration and Half of Awe"
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: ink wash and pencil heightened with white on board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01036
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 21 1/4" (37.47 x 53.98 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (April 12, 1890), p. 277, halftone.
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--; reverse: Lauren Sened [illegible]/"I call for help upon the living Christian God"; printer's notations
Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--; lr: KURTZ
Provenance: (Sotheby's, New York, New York, October 26, 1984); [?]; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, 2009); 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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Sotheby's. American 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings and
Sculpture. New York, sale 5227 (October 26, 1984).
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. New York, sale 4 (1938).
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Janvier, Thomas A. The Aztec Treasure-House: A Romance of
Contemporaneous Antiquity. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890.
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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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.