Remington Catalogue
Dismounted Sabre Contest
Alternate Title: Fencing, Dickel's Academy
Date: 1891
Medium: pen and ink wash on academy board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01314
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 11 x 21" (27.6 x 53.3 cm.)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (January 2, 1892), p. 17, halftone.
Inscription: ll: A-11548; lc: FREDERIC REMINGTON.--/from pencil-sketch Dickels Academy.; lr: 15 1/2 x 23 1/2; also lr, the number 3 circled
Illustration Inscription: lc: FREDERIC REMINGTON.--/from pencil-sketch Dickels Academy.
Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York, 1962); Private Collection; (Christie's, New York, New York, September 27, 1990); did not sell, returned to Private Collection
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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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "Recent Acquisitions in Important
Western and Sporting Paintings and Sculpture." The Kennedy
Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2 (October 1962).
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Christie, Manson & Woods International, Inc. American
Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture of the 19th and
20th Centuries. New York sale (September 27, 1990).
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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Remington to Arthur B. Turner, December 16, 1891. The New-York Historical
Society, 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.