Live Auction 12163American Art
Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Lot 44 Property from the Collection of Lois and Harry Horvitz

Frederic Remington (1861-1909)

The Broncho Buster

Closed19 May 2016

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Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
The Broncho Buster
inscribed 'Copyright BY/Frederic Remington' and stamped 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N Y' (on the base)--inscribed 'No 161-' (under the base)
bronze with dark greenish-brown patina
22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high
Cast in 1915.

Tiffany & Co., New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1916.
Orlando H. Frati, Sr., Bangor, Maine, by 1982.
Acquired by the late owners by 1989.

Specialist note

Frederic Remington’s The Broncho Buster is one of the most iconic artworks of the American frontier. The bronze sculpture of a cowboy breaking in a wild horse was an immediate success, symbolizing all that was triumphant and heroic of the West. The artist observed, “my oils will all get old and watery...my watercolors will fade--but I am to endure in bronze...I am doing a cowboy on a bucking bronco and I am going to rattle down through the ages.” (as quoted in P. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, p. 182)