El Vaquero

Details

FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)
El Vaquero
signed and inscribed 'Remington/Mexico-' (lower right)
oil on board
15 ¾ x 8 in. (40 x 20.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1889.

Provenance

The artist.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 October 1979, lot 72, sold by the above.
Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Private collection, New Mexico.
Zaplin-Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Morgan Walker, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2011.

Literature

P.H. Hassrick, M.J. Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, p. 169, no. 424, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., Masters of the West: Painting and Sculpture Depicting the American Western Heritage, December 4-30, 1984.

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Lot Essay

Drenched in bright sunlight, El Vaquero depicts a Mexican cattle driver, whom Remington would have observed during his six-week sojourn to Mexico in 1889. The artist took this trip to prepare illustrations for an 1890 article in Harper's Weekly.

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