230 He Jump from Hees Pony to Dis Red Horse

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Start Price 37,500.00 USD
Estimated at 75,000.00 - 125,000.00 USD
He Jump from Hees Pony to Dis Red Horse
Artist: Remington, FredericDate of Birth: 1861-1909
Medium: Ink Wash & Gouache
Dimensions: 21 x 29 inches
Signed: Signed lower right and dated 1897
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In “The Great Medicine-Horse,” Frederic Remington’s brilliant mixed race (Crow and French) creation, Sundown Leflare, relates a tale told by Paint, an old Crow chief, about a red horse that Paint’s grandfather took and escaped on during a raid in the days when white men were few and far between. Sundown’s patois as he interprets shows the artist’s fascination—and sympathy—with people who straddle and struggle with disparate cultures. In the tale, the red horse is magic, good medicine: “de horse de Absarokee was increase—plenty pony—un de mare he was all red colts; de big horse was strong. De buffalo de was come right to de camp—by Gar, de horse was good.” Eventually, the red horse rises as smoke to battle the Thunderbird, but not before promising to return someday, “when he was bring de buffalo plenty; was roll de lan’ over de white men; was fight de north wind.”