Lot 291 , Walter Winans (St. Petersburg, 1852-Parsloe Park, Essex, 1920), a cast bronze of the artist, as a cowboy, riding the Arab stallion Skowronek, 50cm wide, 66cm high, overall 79.5cm high

Walter Winans (St. Petersburg, 1852-Parsloe Park, Essex, 1920), a cast bronze of the artist, as a cowboy, riding the Arab stallion Skowronek, raised on a naturalistic base, upon a marble plinth, signed, dated 1915, 50cm wide, 66cm high, overall 79.5cm high
£7,000-10,000
Note: Walter Winans bought the Arab stallion, Skowronek, from Count Josef Potocki’s Antoniny Stud, in Poland, where he had been foaled in 1909. Winans rode the stallion and used him as a model for several of his bronzes, as in the current example.

Provenance: Acquired from the artist by Henry Vyvyan Musgrave Clark, co-founder of the Arab Horse Society in 1918, thence, by descent, to the current owner

Condition:
Good honest untouched condition, an even mid chocolate brown patination throughout slightly rubbed and matted on some of the raised extremities, rather dusty in the crevices but no real faults noted, plinth with a number of small chips and losses around all of the edges and a slightly larger chip to one corner.

Sold for £10,500