2015 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 294205 / 290  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Paul Rossi (b. 1929)
The Great Saddles of the West (1971)
bronze
appro×imately 8 inches high each
inscribed under saddles: Paul Rossi 11/25

From a November 29, 1992 newspaper article titled History Has Its Price at Reagan Library Gift Shop: “If money is no object, the shop sells a $ 55,000 collection of 12 bronze saddles created by sculptor Paul Rossi. Reagan kept a set of these saddles in the Oval Office.

“Each piece of merchandise was selected by Doris Fields Heller, the former Beverly Hills department store manager who oversees the gift shop. Heller says she measured each item against three yardsticks.

“‘It had to represent the office of the President of the United States,” she said. “Second, it had to represent the man called Ronald Reagan. Third, it had to represent history—or I did not select it.’”

PROVENANCE
The Artist
Gilbert and Carmen Pedersen, Tucson, AZ
Lars Pedersen, Tucson, AZ, 1994
Present owners, by descent

294

Paul Rossi

b. 1929

The Great Saddles of the West (1971)
bronze
appro×imately 8 inches high each
inscribed under saddles: Paul Rossi 11/25
Sold at Auction: $29,250
Condition Report

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