A Bull-Fight in Mexico
Alternate Title: Death in the Afternoon; Corrida
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 00461
Credit Line: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Dimensions: 24 x 32" (61 x 81.3 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (June 1, 1889), p. 432-33, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/City of MEXICO '89
Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/MEXICO '89
Provenance: (John Nicholson Galleries, New York, New York, 1950, as {Death in the Afternoon}); Levison Collection; (Hirschl & Aldler, New York, New York, 1959); present owner
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
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New York, New York: Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, 1946.
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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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American Art. Santa Barbara, California: The Santa Barbara Museum
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Antiques, (November 1959).
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Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.
