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Lot 36: Hermon Atkins MacNeil (1866-1947)

Est: $30,000 USD - $50,000 USDSold:
Coeur d’Alene Art AuctionReno, NV, USJuly 26, 2014

Item Overview

Description

A Chief of the Multnomah Tribe (1905)

Dimensions

37 inches high

Artist or Maker

Medium

bronze

Date

1866-1947

Provenance

According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "In planning his nostalgic image of one of the vanishing tribes of the Pacific Northwest confronting the unseen white man, MacNeil took care to ensure ethnographic accuracy and scrupulously studied details of dress. Because the figure of the chief was particularly admired, MacNeil modeled it on a smaller scale and issued it as a statuette, of which some twenty were cast in bronze. Titled A Chief of the Multnomah Tribe, the subject is represented in a dignified standing pose with head raised defiantly and arms folded across the chest. The model wears a feathered headdress and a bow and quiver of arrows not present in the original group. Jean Holden, the artist's biographer, wrote in 1903: 'Superstitious, without experience, and without a common language, Multonomah [sic] meets the stranger like a brave man who feels the inviolability of the human soul and dares the rest. From the crown of his head to the sole of his well-planted foot, he shows no excitement.'"PROVENANCE:[The Latendorf Bookshop, New York, New York]Private Collection, Arizona, 1961LITERATURE:Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History on-line publication (New York, NY : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), example illustrated 39.65.54Carol Clark, "Indians on the Mantel and in the Park" The American West in Bronze 1850-1925 (New York, NY : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013), page 45, example illustrated

Notes

inscribed on base: MV LTNOM AH, H. A. MacNeil '05 Roman Bronze Works N.Y.; inscribed under base: 12

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Auction Details

The 2014 Coeur d'Alene Art Auction

by
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction
July 26, 2014, 12:00 PM PST

2707 South Virginia Street, Reno, NV, 89502, US

Terms

Live bidding may start higher or lower

Buyer's Premium

$0 - 499,999:23.0%
$500,000+:18.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
$0$4,999$250
$5,000$9,999$500
$10,000$19,999$1,000
$20,000$49,999$2,500
$50,000$99,999$5,000
$100,000$199,999$10,000
$200,000$499,999$25,000
$500,000+$50,000

Term&Condition of Sale

Visa/Mastercard payment is accepted up to $10,000 with the balance to be paid by check or wire. Credit Card purchases cannot exceed $10,000 regardless of the number of lots purchased. Buyer's premium is 20% of the hammer price up to $500,000 and 15% of the excess of the final bid price above $500,000, plus any applicable sales tax. The buyer's premium is calculated seperately for each lot. Nevada State sales tax of 7.725% will be added to items picked up or remaining in Nevada. No sales tax applies to items shipped out of the State of Nevada. All sales are final, with no exchanges or refunds. Titled to the lot passes to buyer upon the fall of the auctioneer's hammer and the annnouncement by the auctioneer that the lot has been sold. The buyer assumes full risk and responsibility for the lot and shall immediately pay the the full puchase price. All property is sold "as is" and the the Coeur d' Alene Art Auction does not make any guarantees, warranties or representations, expressed of implied, as to merchantability or fitness for a paticular purpose, the correctness of the catalog or other description of the authenticity, physical condition, size, medium, provenance, literature or historical relevance of any property. Some items may be offered with reserves which is the minimum price below which a lot will not be sold. In no event shall the reserve exceed the low estimate listed in the catalog.

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