Gilcrease

Museum

Father Lacombe Leading the Indians

circa 1890

ArtistFrederic Remington

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Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 27 1/2 × 35 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (69.9 × 90.8 × 7 cm) Overall (Canvas): 22 1/2 × 30 1/8 in. (57.2 × 76.5 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Institution: Gilcrease Museum
Object number: 0126.916

Market Intelligence

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

Public evidence

Last known price $2,325 Dealer sale · Jan 5, 1959

+365.0% vs previous observed sale

Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional

$1K1956

$2K1959

Last known price$2,3252 matched observed sales

Observed median$1,413

Observed sales2

Artist index37.2

1959-01-05Dealer sale$2,325.00

1956-09-11Dealer purchase$500.00

Artist index contextLatest public build 37.2 · base 100 · n=1.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

Artwork	Sale date	House	Realized USD	Match
The Bell Mare 1903 · oil on canvas	1950-04-01	—	$52,500.00	82%
The Bell Mare 1903 · oil on canvas	1949-12-17	—	$6,250.00	82%
The Discovery 1908 · oil on canvas board	1953-11-10	—	$12,000.00	63%
The Discovery 1908 · oil on canvas board	1951-12-31	—	$8,330.00	63%

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

Provenance

Public

Gift of Gilcrease Foundation, March 1964.

Gift of Gilcrease Foundation, March 1964.

Thomas Gilcrease purchased from M. Knoedler and Co., Inc.

Thomas Gilcrease purchased from M. Knoedler and Co., Inc.

From the collection of William Harper, Milton, MA, grandson of the editor of Harper's Magazine.

From the collection of William Harper, Milton, MA, grandson of the editor of Harper's Magazine.

Source provenance text

Gift of Gilcrease Foundation, March 1964. Thomas Gilcrease purchased from M. Knoedler and Co., Inc. From the collection of William Harper, Milton, MA, grandson of the editor of Harper's Magazine.

Gilcreaseconfidence 100%

Exhibitions

Public

No rights-cleared exhibition history is published.

Related public works

Catalog neighbours

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The Bell Mare

Frederic Remington · 1903

$52,500Last sale
1950

The Discovery

Frederic Remington · 1908

$12,000Last sale
1953

Sourced Overview Evidence

Father Lacombe Leading the Indians is a work by Frederic Remington. dated circa 1890. made in oil on canvas. with recorded dimensions Framed: 27 1/2 × 35 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (69.9 × 90.8 × 7 cm) Overall (Canvas): 22 1/2 × 30 1/8 in. (57.2 × 76.5 cm). The work is recorded by Gilcrease Museum under accession 0126.916.

Gilcreaseconfidence 100%

Evidence state

2 observed sales · 4 comparable sales · 3 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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