2023 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 185269 / 306  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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De Cost Smith (1864 – 1939)
Sioux Lovers (1887)
oil on canvas
58 × 45 inches
signed and dated lower right

VERSO
Artist label with title

A 50-page De Cost Smith sketchbook, an original illustrated catalog from the 1887 Paris Salon exhibition, and a transcription of the flute music being played by the Sioux brave in the painting will accompany the lot.

PROVENANCE
The artist
Elizabeth Celestia Sawtell, Amenia, New York (the artist’s niece)
Present owners, by descent

EXHIBITED
Paris Salon, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1887

LITERATURE
Paris Salon, Académie des Beaux-Arts, 1887, illustrated

185

De Cost Smith

1864 – 1939

Sioux Lovers (1887)
oil on canvas
58 × 45 inches
signed and dated lower right
Sold at Auction: $72,600
Condition ReportSurface is in good condition. Canvas is lined with hairline cracks in sky. Faint horizontal bar marks in the center of the canvas. Scattered spots of inpainting.

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