Buffalo Bill and the Frenchman's Bottle Gag, a comic tableau from the Wild West Show

by Alfred Agoust, b. French

$37,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Provenance: Kennedy Galleries labels ; Collection of Edward Eberstadt & Sons A very rare contemporary oil painting of an act in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Almost all of the images of the Wild West Show are found in the great lithographic posters and photographs produced by the William F. Cody publicity machine. Period oil paintings of the Buffalo Bill act are very rare indeed. This wonderful image, showing a comic routine Buffalo Bill evidently adopted from

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