2017 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 232
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Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
Fink Kills His Friend [or] A Trapper's Fracas Outside the Walls of Fort Union
pen & ink on paper
12.5 × 20.25 inches
signed lower left
VERSO
Label, Pasadena Art Institute A-153
Label, Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Fink Kills His Friend is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.DR.38.
PROVENANCE
The Collection of Earl C. Adams
E. A. Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY William E. Weiss, 1960
The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. William D. Weiss, Jackson, WY, by descent
[The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction 2003, Lot 125]
Private Collection, CA, 2003
LITERATURE
Charles M. Russell, Back Trailing on the Old Frontiers (Great Falls, MT: Cheely-Raban Syndicate, 1922), p 14, illustrated line engraving
Agnes C. Laut, Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier (New York, NY: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1926), p 197, illustrated