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    Sporting And Wildlife Art Including The Collection Of Doug And Ellen Miller

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    28 November 2007

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    • Bob Kuhn (American, 1920-2007)
    Lot 163

    Bob Kuhn (American, 1920-2007)

    Fire Storm

    Price realised

    USD 657,000

    Estimate

    USD 180,000 - USD 220,000

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    Bob Kuhn (American, 1920-2007)
    Fire Storm
    signed 'Kuhn' (upper left)
    acrylic on masonite
    23¾ x 48 in. (60.3 x 121.9 cm.)
    Painted in 1975.

    Provenance

    Purchased from the artist.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Tom Davis, Wild Harvest The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn, Sporting Classics and Wildlife Art Magazine, 1997, p. 69, illustrated.


    Exhibited

    Jackson Hole, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Bob Kuhn: Painting The Wild, 7 June-22 September, 2002, illustrated in catalogue pl. 6.
    Los Olivos, Wildlife Art Museum, Bob Kuhn: Mammals Up Close and Personal, 17 September, 2005-8 January, 2006.


    Lot Essay

    Kuhn described this inspiration for this work, 'This is a fanciful rendition of an emergency most wild creatures learn to cope with. The mule deer running ahead of the tree-gobbling inferno don't know it, but within a year or two the charred forest floor will be covered with new growth and their food supply will have been refurbished by something that's not only destructive, but life-giving as well.' (op. cit., p. 69).

    Other information

    Pre-Lot Text

    PROPERTY FROM THE DOUG AND ELLEN MILLER COLLECTION

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