"Known for his romanticized depictions of the American West, the wildly successful 19th-century painter and sculptor captured cowboy culture in its nascency, helping to etch its ethos of rugged individualism into the American psyche. This nocturne, created toward the end of this career, represented a shift in his style from narrative depictions of frontier battles to more atmospheric renderings of the North American landscape."
"Christie's head of American art Tylee Abbott described the painting as "one of the most significant Remington nocturnes left in private hands." Energy billionaire Bill Koch is known for his deep collecting of American art. The two-part sale of some of his holdings, held on January 20 and 21, became the most successful Western art auction of all time, realizing $84.1 million, with fees-more than three times the previous record for a single-owner Western art auction-and a 95 percent sell-through rate."
Frederic Remington's Coming to the Call set a new auction record at Christie's in New York, hammering at $11 million and selling for $13.3 million with fees after a more-than-five-minute bidding war. The 1905 nocturne marks a late-career shift toward atmospheric landscape renderings, depicting a hunter in a canoe and a moose silhouetted against a golden-hued lake at sunset. The work appeared as a double-page spread in Collier's Weekly, which sold affordable color prints. Bill Koch's two-part sale realized $84.1 million with fees, becoming the highest single-owner Western art auction total with a 95 percent sell-through rate. Interest in Western art is rising.
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