
AUCTION 2022, LOT 342
Oscar Berninghaus
Among the Adobes-Taos
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
ESTIMATE: $60,000.00 - $90,000.00
Sold for $52,650.00
Oscar Berninghaus, a St. Louis native, was already known for his expert draftsmanship when the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company commissioned him to do the artwork for series of advertising lithographs based on scenes from the settlement of the West. Because of this commission, the artist’s reputation and interest in painting the American West soared. On his very first Western journey, a chance encounter and a broken wagon wheel—so legend has it—led him to Taos. The light and color there, and the ways of life of the indigenous Pueblo Indians filled his senses. Berninghaus would eventually make Taos his home and become one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists.
AUCTION 2022, LOT 342
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
ESTIMATE: $60,000.00 - $90,000.00
Sold for $52,650.00
AUCTION 2022, LOT 343
Oil on board
10 x 12 inches
ESTIMATE: $15,000.00 - $25,000.00
Sold for $15,210.00
AUCTION 2022, LOT 444
Lithograph 2/8
Sight size 11 1/4 x 9 inches
ESTIMATE: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Sold for $936.00
AUCTION 2021, LOT 275
Oil on board
12 x 16 1/4 inches
ESTIMATE: $20,000 - $40,000
Sold for $ 46,800
AUCTION 2021, LOT 276
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
ESTIMATE: $60,000 - $90,000
Sold for $ 210,600