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April 2025 | Session II

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This is Session II of a two-day auction featuring over 460 works of American, Western, Wildlife, and Sporting art. All lots will be open to the public for viewing beginning March 24th in our state-of-the-art exclusive showroom in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The auction begins Friday, April 11th, 2025 at 1:00PM with Session I. Session II will commence at 10:00AM Saturday, April 12th, 2025 with the A. P. Hays collection and our regular Session II beginning at 1:00 PM.

(All times mentioned are in Arizona Time, consistent with Pacific Standard Time in April)

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Dave McGary (1958-2013) 42 inches overall height
Lot 292

Dave McGary (1958-2013) 42 inches overall height

Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000
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Artist: Dave McGary; Title: Blessing of the Bear; Medium: Bronze, cast 37/40; Dimensions: 42 inches overall height; Signed: Signed; Verso: Thumbprint in bronze; Framed/Base: 42 x 28 x 20 inches - 175 lbs.
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Overall Dimensions
Height: 42.00
Width: 28.00
Depth: 20.00
Weight: 175.00

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Provenance: Private collection, Arizona In Dave McGary: American Realism in Bronze, author Michael Duty writes about McGary’s use of texture, which can be seen here in the masterwork version of Blessing of the Bear. “The clear evocation of character is one of the most successful elements of the sculpture but there are other techniques and qualities that are equally telling. Texture has been rendered here in a startlingly realistic manner. While the entire sculpture, of course, is composed of the same bronze material, one notices immediately the way McGary has duplicated the actual contrasts of texture between each element—the wood of the club, the feathers, the beads, the skin of the man, the leather leggings—all these items have such a strong sense of reality that one imagines them to have been made of the very things that they represent.”

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