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Auction archive: Lot number 33

An Allan Houser bronze, "Peyote Songs"

Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 33

An Allan Houser bronze, "Peyote Songs"

Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Property from the L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, Lots 21-34 Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache, (1914-1994), "Peyote Songs," 1977, bronze, edition 4/24, signed and stamped with foundry mark. excluding base: height 9in, width 5 5/8 Fußnoten Provenance The artist, as represented by the Gallery Wall, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1981, a copy of the invoice of which accompanies the lot Literature W.J. Rushing, Allan Houser: An American Master 2004, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, p. 109, another example illustrated: "'Peyote Songs'... embodies ancient and modern manifestations of the visionary tradition in Native culture... the ecstatic singer/drummer of 'Peyote Songs' is a realistic genre figure, whose fluctuant, 'painterly' surface is the result of Houser's vigorous modeling of the wax before casting" (p. 129).

Auction archive: Lot number 33
Auction:
Datum:
16 Sep 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90046 Tel: +1 323 850 7500 Fax : +1 323 850 6090 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Property from the L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, Lots 21-34 Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache, (1914-1994), "Peyote Songs," 1977, bronze, edition 4/24, signed and stamped with foundry mark. excluding base: height 9in, width 5 5/8 Fußnoten Provenance The artist, as represented by the Gallery Wall, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1981, a copy of the invoice of which accompanies the lot Literature W.J. Rushing, Allan Houser: An American Master 2004, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, p. 109, another example illustrated: "'Peyote Songs'... embodies ancient and modern manifestations of the visionary tradition in Native culture... the ecstatic singer/drummer of 'Peyote Songs' is a realistic genre figure, whose fluctuant, 'painterly' surface is the result of Houser's vigorous modeling of the wax before casting" (p. 129).

Auction archive: Lot number 33
Auction:
Datum:
16 Sep 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90046 Tel: +1 323 850 7500 Fax : +1 323 850 6090 info.us@bonhams.com
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