Live Auction 17661American Art
Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Lot 65

Frederic Remington (1861-1909)

The Broncho Buster

Closed20 November 2019

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USD 399,000

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Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
The Broncho Buster
inscribed 'Frederic Remington' and 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.' (on the base)—inscribed 'No. 53' (under the base)
bronze with brownish-black patina
22 ½ in. (57.2 cm.) high
Modeled in 1895; cast in 1906.

Private collection.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Los Angeles, California, 28 October 1974, lot 78, sold by the above.
Giles Mead, Los Angeles, California, acquired from the above.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note


The present work is a lifetime cast of Frederic Remington’s The Broncho Buster, 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)