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Frederick Arthur Verner
(Canadian, 1836-1928)
Mid-Day Buffalo
Estimate: $8,000-$12,000
Sold
$19,000
Live Auction
Western Paintings and Sculpture including Contemporary Native American Art Session I
Size
24 x 36 inches
Description
Frederick Arthur Verner
(Canadian, 1836-1928)
Mid-Day Buffalo
oil on canvas
signed Verner (lower right)
24 x 36 inches
Condition
Appears in overall good condition- no visible losses. Light surface discoloration visible throughout, commensurate with age. Faint craquelure developing along top edge. UV light reveals two small (less than 5 mm) points of possible inpainting, upper right quadrant. Appears to have a varnish that is yellowing slightly, but does not fluoresce. Please request additional images.
Framed dimensions: 30 1/2 x 42 3/4 inches
Framed dimensions: 30 1/2 x 42 3/4 inches
Signature
signed Verner (lower right)
Provenance
Provenance:
Uno Langman Limited, Vancouver, Canada
Frederick Arthur Verner is one of several fine painters who made the Canadian West his subject, though he didn’t actively pursue his art until he finished a stint in the British army that included fighting for Italian independence under Garibaldi. Verner returned to Canada, where, in 1873, he journeyed with a government detail to sign an important First Nations treaty. His sketches from this trip, and the careful studies of buffalo he began to make in 1875 formed the bulk of the reference he would use throughout his career. Mid-Day Buffalo depicts a languid, peaceful moment on what seems to be an endless prairie with only an undulant line of hills in the hazy distance.
-James D. Balestrieri