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Bert Geer Phillips (1868 – 1956)
The Lost Trail
oil on board
24 × 27 inches
32 × 35 × 2 inches (framed)
signed lower right

VERSO
Signed and titled
Label, Christie’s, New York, New York
Label, Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York

PROVENANCE
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, ca. 1977
Wilfred Friedman, Pojoaque, New Mexico, 1980
C. M. Russell Auction, Great Falls, Montana, 1982
Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
Estate of Daniel L. Berman, Salt Lake City, Utah
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2018
Private collection, Beaver Creek, Colorado

EXHIBITED
A Personal View of the American West: Canvases from the Collection of Dan and Susan Berman, Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999

LITERATURE
The Kennedy Quarterly, vol. XV, no. 3, 1977, illustrated
Patricia Janis Broder, Taos: A Painter’s Dream, Little, Brown and Company, 1980, p. 133, illustrated
Julie Schimmel and Robert R. White, Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony, University of New Mexico Press, 1994, pp. 195-97, 238
Larry Len Peterson, The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, 2021, p. 322, illustrated

240

Bert Geer Phillips

1868 – 1956

The Lost Trail
oil on board
24 × 27 inches
32 × 35 × 2 inches (framed)
signed lower right
Sold at Auction: $57,475
Condition ReportSurface is in excellent condition. Spots of inpainting around edges of frame. Spots of inpainting to right of the horse’s head, and to the left of Indian’s foot.

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