Sale 835
| Denver
| Denver
Estimate$10,000 – $12,000
Provenance:
Donated by the artist
David Leffel’s beautiful oil, Wild Horses, is reminiscent of the early Hudson River School, and Asher Durand in particular. It also recalls Worthington Whittredge’s paintings of the Western Plains in the Civil War era. Leffel finds his inspiration in the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, in Rembrandt and Vermeer, but here the wildness is Western, as the three white horses, lit by a break in the clouds, move away from the fences, towards the wild gray weather that looms at left.
-James D. Balestrieri
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