Lot 122: Frank Paul Sauerwein (1871-1910) Indian Portrait 13 3/4 x 10in overall: 21 1/2 x 17 1/2in

Frank Paul Sauerwein (1871-1910)
Indian Portrait
signed and dated 'FP Sauerwen [sic] 1901' (lower left)
oil on artistboard
13 3/4 x 10in
overall: 21 1/2 x 17 1/2in
Painted in 1901

Footnotes

• Provenance
  With Robert L. Parsons Fine Art, Taos, New Mexico.
  Private estate, Santa Barbara, California.
  
  The work depicts Francisco, a Santa Clara pueblo Native American, based on a 1900 photograph. υ1
  
  A copy of the limited edition book, Frank Paul Sauerwein: An Early Master Painter of the American Southwest, The Biography, accompanies the lot.
  
  υ1 Michael Grauer, Elaine Maher Harrison and Steve Holmes, Frank Paul Sauerwein: An Early Master Painter of the American Southwest, The Biography, Santa Fe: Rio Grande Press, 2002, p. 131.