2019 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 84
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Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
Indian Woman (1913)
watercolor on paper
5 × 4 inches
signed and dated lower left
Logger (1913)
watercolor on paper
5 × 4 inches
signed and dated lower left
Logger (1913)
VERSO
“Mr. & Mrs. Willis T. Burns Helen Craney’s Uncle and Aunt”
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Indian Woman is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.NE.833. Logger is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.NE.834.
An original type-written letter detailing the provenance will accompany the lot. The letter states in part, “These paintings were place cards for Mr. and Mrs. Willis T. Burns at a dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Russell in 1913.”
PROVENANCE
The Artist
Mr. & Mrs. Willis T. Burns 1913
Virginia M. Tousley, Las Vegas, NV, by descent
Norman G. Belcher, Las Vegas, NV 1983