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WILLIAM HENRY DETHLEF KOERNER (NJ/NY/MT, 1878-1938)
Catalog #2335. "A Gesture of Farewell" A narrative oil sketch white field illustration for "Wildman" by Stewart Edward White, appearing in "Saturday Evening Post," December 17, 1932. Caption: The straight little figure stood where he left it, bronze in the sunlight" The layout provides fragments of scenery that would have been distributed through the text. Depicting a Mexican Caballero on horseback waving farewell to an unclothed young white boy in the brush, oil on illustration board laid to upson board, initialed lower right, Housed in a replica gold deep cove frame.
Minor loss in white field.
OS: 44 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. (113 x 87.6 cm.), SS: 38 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. (97.2 x 71.8 cm.)
Catalog #2335. "A Gesture of Farewell" A narrative oil sketch white field illustration for "Wildman" by Stewart Edward White, appearing in "Saturday Evening Post," December 17, 1932. Caption: The straight little figure stood where he left it, bronze in the sunlight" The layout provides fragments of scenery that would have been distributed through the text. Depicting a Mexican Caballero on horseback waving farewell to an unclothed young white boy in the brush, oil on illustration board laid to upson board, initialed lower right, Housed in a replica gold deep cove frame.
Minor loss in white field.
OS: 44 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. (113 x 87.6 cm.), SS: 38 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. (97.2 x 71.8 cm.)
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25%
Dimensions
44.5 x 34.5 in
WILLIAM HENRY DETHLEF KOERNER (NJ/NY/MT, 1878-1938)
Estimate $1,500-$2,500
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