The Spanish Dance

Details

CHARLES MARION RUSSELL (1864-1926)
The Spanish Dance
signed 'CM Russell' with artist's skull device (lower left)
oil on canvas
26 x 33 in. (66 x 83.8 cm.)

Provenance

John L. Ammon, Oakland, California.
Frederic G. Renner, Arizona, by 1981.
Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, Arizona, 31 March 2012, lot 270.
Morgan Walker LLC, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2012.

Exhibited

Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum; Great Falls, Montana, C.M. Russell Museum; Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, Charles M. Russell: The Frederic G. Renner Collection, April 11-December 6, 1981.

Further details

The present work has been assigned number CR.RNR.21 by the Charles M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné Committee.

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Lot Essay

The present work likely depicts a Southwestern scene celebrating Spanish dance and music. According to Brian W. Dippie, Charles Marion Russell "knew that the Southwest would never be his country, but after he and [his wife] Nancy began wintering in California in 1920 and exhibiting in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, he sometimes substituted Navajos for Plains Indians and vaqueros for the cowpunchers of his youth to give his work added appeal." (B.B. Price, ed., Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné, Norman, Oklahoma, 2007, p. 43)

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