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95CHARLES M. RUSSELL (1864–1926) Faro Layout, c. 1910ink11 x 14 inches$35,000–55,000Recorded in Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonnė: CR.DR.513In an illustration for Owen Wister’s e Virginian, Russell captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the second chapter’s dramatic poker hall scene. In a nearby passage, Wister’s narrator describes the tension. en, with equal suddenness and ease, the room came out of its strangeness. Voices and cards, the click of chips, the pu of tobacco, glasses lifted to drink,—this level of smooth relaxation hinted no more plainly of what lay beneath then does the surface tell the depth of the sea.ILLUSTRATION• Owen Wister. e Virginian. New York: e Macmillan Company, 1911. 29–30A copy of Owen Wister’s e Virginian will accompany this lot.
