NEW YORK — Frederic Remington's 1902 bronze "Coming Through the Rye," depicting four cowboys firing pistols into the air at full gallop, was sold at auction Thursday for $4.4 million, a world record price for a piece of American sculpture.
The piece was bought by an anonymous telephone buyer, said Dana Micucci, a spokesman for Christie's auction house in Manhattan.
The work was part of a group of important American paintings, drawings and sculptures of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
