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by | Jun 1, 2005 | Art, Guns and Culture

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A Charles Russell fake was pulled before the C.M. Russell art auction on March 16-19 in Great Falls, Montana, but its replacement brought a bang-up price. The pulled lot was a 1906 signed painting of Black Eagle, which had a letter of authenticity by Ginger Renner, widow of Frederic who created the most extensive archive of Russell’s work, dating from the age of 14 until the cowboy artist’s death in 1926. Black Eagle was replaced with Russell’s Plains Indian on Horseback, which earned t


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