Live Auction 2078019th Century American Art
CHARLES DEAS (1818-1867)
Lot 46 Property from the Westervelt Company

CHARLES DEAS (1818-1867)

Figure Group of Sioux

Closed19 January 2022

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CHARLES DEAS (1818-1867)
Figure Group of Sioux
oil on paper laid down on board
sheet, 7 1⁄4 x 6 in. (18.4 x 15.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1845.

Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Washington, D.C.
James Maroney, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1984.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Luckett, Jr., Boulder, Colorado, acquired from the above, 1984.
Sotheby's, New York, 3 December 1987, lot 127, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present sketch relates to Charles Deas' oil Indian Group of 1845 in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Indian Group likely depicts a group of Sioux, whom the artist possibly encountered during his experience on Clifton Wharton's expedition of 1844 to visit the Pawnee villages of Nebraska.