Norman Rockwell
1894-1978
Bucking Bronco
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 27 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
SOLD FOR: $58,500.00
Including Buyers Premium
2024 - APRIL,
LOT 301
Additional Information
Provenance:
Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, AZ, 2018
Originally made for Ralph Graham Taber’s novel Chained Lightning: A Story of Adventure in Mexico, Norman Rockwell’s Bucking Bronco shows the book’s main character, Maurice Belville, holding tightly to a kicking horse. Taber describes what happens next: “Three times that gentle mustang bucked, and Belville felt that his ears were bursting. Then Luis plunged his spurs in deep and that mustang started. There was no stopping him then…Somehow they managed to keep on the animal’s back, but how they could never satisfactorily explain to each other.” This early work from 1915 helped land Rockwell at the Saturday Evening Post in 1916.