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Buffalo and Wolves First
Gilcrease
Museum

Buffalo and Wolves First

mid-19th century - late 19th century
Alfred Sully visual detail
ArtistAlfred Sully
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Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $7,818 Dealer sale · Mar 1, 1955
-14.5% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1952 · $9,1401955 · $7,818
$9K1952
$8K1955
Last known price$7,8182 matched observed sales
Observed median$8,479
Observed sales2
Artist index85.5
1955-03-01Dealer sale$7,817.50
1952-01-01Dealer purchase$9,140.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 85.5 · base 100 · n=5.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
Indian Maidens
Year n/a · oil on canvas
1955-03-01—$7,817.5074%
Indian Maidens
Year n/a · oil on canvas
1952-01-01—$9,140.0074%
Indian Spearing Salmon
Year n/a · oil on canvas
1955-03-01—$7,817.5072%
Indian Spearing Salmon
Year n/a · oil on canvas
1952-01-01—$9,140.0072%
General Sully's Attack on Sioux Camp
Year n/a · oil on canvas
1955-03-01—$7,817.5070%
General Sully's Attack on Sioux Camp
Year n/a · oil on canvas
1952-01-01—$9,140.0070%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public
Knoedler & Co. NYC

Knoedler & Co. NYC

purchased by Thomas Gilcrease Foundation 1950

purchased by Thomas Gilcrease Foundation 1950

to Gilcrease Institute 1955

to Gilcrease Institute 1955

accession gift/purchase

accession gift/purchase

Source provenance text

Knoedler & Co. NYC; purchased by Thomas Gilcrease Foundation 1950; to Gilcrease Institute 1955 accession gift/purchase

Gilcreaseconfidence 100%

Exhibitions

Public
No rights-cleared exhibition history is published.
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Sourced Overview Evidence

Buffalo and Wolves First is a work by Alfred Sully. dated mid-19th century - late 19th century. made in oil on canvas. with recorded dimensions Overall: 22 × 25 7/8 × 2 1/8 in. (55.9 × 65.7 × 5.4 cm) Image (Canvas): 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm). The work is recorded by Gilcrease Museum under accession 0126.1113.

Gilcreaseconfidence 100%

Evidence state

2 observed sales · 6 comparable sales · 4 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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