2014 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 251236 / 302  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
The Rescue (circa 1913)
pen & ink on paper
17.5 × 12.5 inches
initialed lower left

The Rescue is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.DR.302.

A Most Desperate Situation will accompany the lot.

LITERATURE:
Walter Cooper, A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier Adventures of a Young Scout, 1858-1864 (Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing, 2000), page 44, illustrated

251

Charles M. Russell

1864 – 1926

The Rescue (circa 1913)
pen & ink on paper
17.5 × 12.5 inches
initialed lower left
Sold at Auction: $35,100
Condition ReportViewed through glass. Paper appears to be in good condition. Eleven foxing specks in upper-right corner. Two small areas of foxing in upper-left corner. Four foxing specks in lower-right portion of painting. Three spots of foxing to the right of the wagon.

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