Western Art Sale Brings $36.8 MillionBy ARTINFO
Published: July 28, 2008
The highlights of the sale were two iconic pieces by turn-of-the-century Montana artist Charles M. Russell. The Hold Up (1899), a 30-by-48-inch oil painting depicting a stagecoach holdup, fetched $5.2 million; the bronze Meat for Wild Men, completed in 1924 and showing two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt, drew $4.1 million. The annual auction, started in 1984 and now held in Reno, is billed as the largest Western art sale in the country. |