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Lot 151

Mike Desatnick
(born 1943)
Brave's Bow 40 x 30in

8 February 2019, 12:00 PST
Los Angeles

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Mike Desatnick (born 1943)

Brave's Bow
signed and inscribed 'MDESATNICK ©' (lower left), signed again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
40 x 30in

Footnotes

Provenance
Trailside Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1987.

Literature
S.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 193, illustrated.

Brave's Bow was described by the artist in a letter to L.D. Brinkman as a painting "of a Southern Ute youth, who if you saw in person would believe he just walked off the pages of an E.S. Curtis book of photos. Extremely proud in stature, hair side parted with braids to his waist, the term "Brave" was most appropriate. Posed, with his traditional dress, a bow, arrows and chief's bonnet of his grandfather's."1

1 Mike Desatnick, unpublished letter, 8 March 1991.

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