2014 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 35224 / 302  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
Kit Carson's Farewell (1913)
pen & ink on paper
17 × 12.5 inches
signed lower left
Bridger in Jeopardy [or] Bridger at the Stake
pen & ink on paper
17 × 12.5 inches

Kit Carson’s Farewell is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.DR.399.

Bridger in Jeopardy is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.DR.46.

Original 1982 Letters of Authenticity by Frederic G. Renner for both drawings as well as 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), pages 77 and 130, illustrated

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Charles M. Russell

1864 – 1926

Kit Carson's Farewell (1913)
pen & ink on paper
17 × 12.5 inches
signed lower left
Bridger in Jeopardy [or] Bridger at the Stake
pen & ink on paper
17 × 12.5 inches
Sold at Auction: $40,950