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Property from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection HENRY F. FARNY (1847-1916) Indian Head, 1908...

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Property from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection HENRY F. FARNY (1847-1916) Indian Head, 1908...
Property from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
HENRY F. FARNY
(1847-1916)
Indian Head, 1908
signed, dated and inscribed "Farny 0• 1908" (lower right)
oil on academy board
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (24.1 x 16.5 cm) <p>Estimate: $60,000-80,000 <p> Provenance
Ira Spanierman, Inc., New York Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland, 1980 <p> Exhibited
South Bend, Indiana, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, The Realistic Expression of Henry Farny: A Retrospective, 1981, p. 43 (illustrated) <p> Literature
Denny Carter, Henry Farny, New York, 1978, p. 171 (illustrated) The Magazine Antiques, CXVIII, October 1980, p. 622 (illustrated) Barbara Novak, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Nineteenth Century American Painting, London, 1986, p. 220, no. 71 (illustrated, p. 221) <p> The art historian Elizabeth Garrity Ellis writes "This small oil study probably represents Ogalala Fire, a Sioux who served as the artist's valet and frequent model."1 Farny's sympathy for the Sioux population was reciprocated, when he was given a bead, a symbol of respect, which he used as an insignia on his subsequent paintings. <p> Note 1 Barbara Novak, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Nineteenth Century American Painting, London, 1986, p. 220.
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