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ARTnews
October 2005

The annual auction of Western art held by Coeur d'Alene Art Auction this summer in Reno, Nevada, hit another consecutive record with 275 lots fetching a total of $21 million. (The sale brought in $18.1 million last year and $10 million in 2003). "There was a lot of energy and activity, as well as so many new faces in the crowd," Coeur d'Alene partner and auctioneer Peter Stremmel told ARTnews, noting that 18 new records were set for artists, including Charles M. Russell, Maynard Dixon, and Frank Tenney Johnson.

Russell's Piegans (1918), which portrays Native Americans riding horses across a prairie, took the top price at $5,6 million (estimate: $3 million/$5 million), more than doubling the previous $2.3 million record for his 1908 watercolor A Disputed Trail, also sold at Coeur d'Alene, in 2001.

Storytellers, Dixon's 1917 depiction of Blackfoot Indians by firelight, sold for a record $1,68 million, well above the estimated $600,000/$800,000. The previous record for Dixon was $1.3 million, paid at Christie's Los Angeles in 2000 for the 1920 oil The Pony Boy (estimate: $500,000/$700,000).

Johnson's 1930 oil Journey's End, a night scene of horses outside a pueblo, formerly owned by a Dallas-based bank, brought a record $392,000 (estimate: $200,000/$300,000).

Other highlights included Benton Clark's Morning Catch (1927), which jumped to $84,000 against an estimate of $10,000/$20,000, while Sydney Laurence's An August Afternoon, Mt. McKinley (n.d.), sold for $224,000 (estimate: $80,000/$120,000).

Article, "Collectors Go West, Bid High," by Eileen Kinsella.