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Lot 183: Buffalo Bill Poster

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD
Lot 183: Buffalo Bill Poster
<b>ANONYMOUS</b> <p> <b>183. Buffalo Bill's Wild West/Cavalerie-Exercises AmÈricaine.</b> 1905.
29 1/4 x 40 1/2 in./74.5 x 102.7 cm
Imp. Chaix, Paris
Cond B+/Slight tears, largely at edges.
A quote from the introduction of The Rough Rider Annual of 1902 by Frederick Remington, an artist and sometimes correspondent for Harper’s Weekly, described the pageantry of William Cody’s Western spectacles as follows: “The Wild West is an evolution of a great idea. It is a great educator, and, with its aggregate of wonders from out-of-the-way places, it will represent a poetical and harmless protest against the derby hat and the starched linen–those horrible badges of the slavery of our modern social system, when men are physical lay figures, and mental and moral cog-wheels and wastes of uniformity–where the great crime is to be an individual, and the unpardonable sin is to be out of the fashion” (Buffalo Bill/Legend, p. 157). If this testosterone-laced array of "American Cavalry Exercises” doesn’t inject an shot of adrenaline into a buttoned-down existence, it’s unlikely anything could. Whether or not the maneuvers of these dynamic horsemen–most notably the on-steed headstand seen in the background–were ever actually employed in a combat situation matters very little in a world were "packin’ ‘em in” was the gold standard.
<b>Est: $3,000-$4,000.</b>
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