"Western art in the US is characterised largely by its straightforward depictions-or artists' interpretations-of life in the country's western states. Common subjects include cowboys and horses, scenic prairie landscapes and Native Americans, often shaped by the bigoted baggage of the US history of genocide and mass displacement of North America's Indigenous inhabitants, and the period in which the works were produced."
"His painting Coming to the Call (around 1905) leads the sale, with a $6m to $8m estimate. The work-depicting a moose staring out on the water under a sky glowing green, yellow and orange at sunset as a hunter on a canoe aims nearby-first appeared in 1905 as a double-page spread in Collier's Weekly. It was quickly considered one of the artist's finest paintings, according to Christie's."
"The sale will also include two versions of Remington's important sculptural work Broncho Buster, showing a cowboy breaking in a rearing horse. Other Remingtons from Koch's collection include Argument with the Town Marshall (around 1905), his bronze Coming Through the Rye (modeled in 1902, cast by 1916)-both with a $4m to $6m estimate-and the only one of three The Horse Thief (1907) casts to remain in private hands, carrying a $3m to $5m estimate."
Christie's will consign Bill Koch's American Western art collection, estimated to sell for at least $50m and potentially more than double the existing record. The two sales, scheduled for and January, are expected to bring national attention to a small but growing sector of the art market. Western art commonly depicts cowboys, horses, prairie landscapes and Native Americans, and is often shaped by the bigoted baggage of genocide and mass displacement of Indigenous inhabitants. The sale features high-value works by Frederic Remington, led by Coming to the Call ($6m–$8m estimate), multiple Broncho Buster versions, and other major bronzes.
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