On July 15, Coeur d’Alene Art Auction will return to Reno, Nevada, to bring Western art from around the country to bidders during a marathon sale filled with stunning examples by top artists.
“We had probably the best spring we could imagine,” Mike Overby, a partner with the sale, says. “We were seeing great piece after great piece come out to us. Just one after another. From top artists, and then masterpieces on top of that. We knew this year’s sale would be special early on as the quality proved to be very high across the board.”
The historic lineup of material will be available to bidders on July 15 in Reno, Nevada.
Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946), The Pony Boy, 1920. Oil on canvas, 36 x 72 in. Estimate: $2/3 million
What is surely to be one of the top lots is Maynard Dixon’s The Pony Boy, a large 72-inch-wide oil from 1920. It is cited by many as one of the iconic masterpieces by the painter. “It’s certainly my favorite painting that Dixon ever did,” Overby says. “I think it’s also his most important painting, one that changed his career. There was pre-Pony Boy for Dixon and then post-Pony Boy. It was when he was experimenting with the modernist movement when this piece was made. This work really sets the tone for what his artwork would like moving forward.” The piece is estimated at $2 million to $3 million.
Thomas Moran (1837-1926), The Rock of Acoma, New Mexico, 1902. Watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 in. Estimate: $400/600,000
Numerous works from the Taos Society of Artists will be available, with Overby adding that this year is “by far the strongest lineup of Taos material in a decade or more.” Three highlights will be coming from William Herbert “Buck” Dunton, whose painting at last year’s sale was the top lot and a milestone record-breaker that pushed Dunton’s work above $1 million for the first time. This year’s offerings include Two Braves (est. $300/500,000), a dramatic vertical paintings with Native American subjects; The Night Guard (est. $70/100,000), showing a nocturne cowboy; and The Race to the Chuck Wagon (est. $500/750,000), a 51-inch-wide action scene showing cowboys dashing back to camp in a cloud of dust. The Race to the Chuck Wagon is not only a significant work by the artist, it also comes from the original owners, which should make it very desirable for collectors.
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Berles-au-Bois, France, 1919. Watercolor on paper, 15 x 20½ in. Estimate: $80/120,000
Other Taos works include pieces by Eanger Irving Couse, E. Martin Hennings, Oscar E. Berninghaus and two Montana-based works from Joseph Henry Sharp.
Henry Farny will be represented with two major paintings: Crow Country, estimated at $150,000 to $250,0000, and The Trail Over the Pass, estimated at $400,000 to $600,000. Also represented by two works is Thomas Moran, whose watercolors are Hopi House, Grand Canyon, Arizona (est. $150/250,000) and The Rock of Acoma, New Mexico (est. $400/600,000).
William Herbert “Buck” Dunton (1878-1936), The Race to the Chuck Wagon. Oil on canvas, 34 x 51 in. Estimate: $500/750,000
Edgar Payne’s Desert Sky, a strong cloudscape with riders framed against sunny cliffs, will also be available with estimates of $250,000 to $350,0000. It will join two Russell watercolors, one of them being Pablo Buffalo Hunt, estimated at $100,000 to $150,000. A friend of Russell’s, Philip R. Goodwin, will have numerous sporting and wildlife scenes in the sale, including The Law of the Wilderness, showing a bear family raiding an overturned canoe. The work is estimated at $200,000 to $300,000.
Other lots include paintings by W.H.D. Koerner, Leon Gaspard, Carl Rungius, John Singer Sargent and many others.
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