Early Norman Rockwell, Mary Cassatt counterproofs key lots in Hindman’s American Art sale Oct. 17

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CHICAGO — An early work by Norman Rockwell leads the lineup of Hindman’s 86-lot American Art auction on Tuesday, October 17. One More Week of School and Then… was painted in 1919, when the artist was just 25 years old, but it made the June 14th cover of Country Gentleman magazine.

The paintings Rockwell did for Country Gentleman from 1917 to 1922 were centered around the adventures and misadventures of Cousin Reginald Claude Fitzhugh, a brown-nosing, know-it-all city boy, and his country cousins, Chuck Peterskin and the spirited Doolittle brothers. The characters were first introduced in August 1917, with Cousin Reginald (seen here carrying a bouquet for Teacher) usually the butt of his cousins’ practical jokes. The 21in square oil on canvas laid to board, which features in the catalog of the artist’s work, was consigned from the estate of former media executive Joe Sample (1921-2022), who lived in Billings, Montana. It is estimated at $300,000-$500,000.

The property of a private Midwesterner, a cast of The Puritan by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) has an estimate of $50,000-$70,000.

Saint-Gaudens, the preeminent sculptor of the Beaux Art style, was commissioned to create a statue for Stearns Square in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1886. It was paid for by Chester W. Chapin to pay homage to his ancestor, Deacon Samuel Chapin, a founding member of the city.

The original sculpture, unveiled on Thanksgiving Day 1887, found many admirers and in 1894 Saint-Gaudens elected to make a series of 2ft 6in reductions for private sale. The present work, marked with the Roman numbers MDCCCXCIX (1899), is one around 40 documented examples, although for each sculpture, Saint-Gaudens made minor alterations to the figure, including varying the angles of the hat and the walking stick, as well as changes to the applied patina.

There are nine works on paper by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) from the private collection of New York dealer Miroslav Klabal (MK Fine Arts). All are pastel counterproofs made by applying a damp sheet of paper to the surface of a work in pastel before running it through a press to create a near-mirror image. Degas, Cassatt’s close friend and another champion of pastel, produced them too.

A substantial number of Cassatt’s counterproofs are believed to be the only remaining trace of the original pastel. Among the nine counterproofs offered here, only two are known pastels. All formed part of the exhibition Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt held at New York’s Adelson Galleries in 2004-2005.

They range in price from Nude Baby Standing Beside Mother, dating to circa 1898-1899 and estimated at $6,000-$8,000, to Mother Jeanne Nursing Her child (Profile Left) (No. 3), from circa 1908 and estimated at $20,000-$30,000.
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Norman Rockwell, ‘One More Week of School and Then…,’ estimated at $300,000-$500,000 at Hindman.
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens, ‘The Puritan,’ estimated at $50,000-$70,000 at Hindman.
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Mary Cassatt, ‘Mother Jeanne Nursing Her Child (Profile Left) (No. 3),’ estimated at $20,000-$30,000 at Hindman.
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Mary Cassatt, ‘Nude Baby Standing Beside Mother,’ estimated at $6,000-$8,000 at Hindman.
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Impressionists at forefront of Capsule’s June 15 American & European art sale

Marc Chagall, ‘La Caverne des Nymphes,’ estimated at $7,000-$10,000. Image courtesy of Capsule Auctions
Marc Chagall, ‘La Caverne des Nymphes,’ estimated at $7,000-$10,000. Image courtesy of Capsule Auctions
Marc Chagall, ‘La Caverne des Nymphes (Cavern of the Nymphs),’ estimated at $7,000-$10,000. Image courtesy of Capsule Auctions

NEW YORK – On Thursday, June 15, Capsule Auctions presents American and European Art, a sale of figurative work, landscapes, genre scenes, still lifes, and marine paintings from 19th- and 20th-century artists. The auction spans Realist, Barbizon, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Fauvist works from artists such as Louis Valtat, Marc Chagall, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Armand Guillaumin, Louis Lozowick and sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Hindman American and European Art sales deliver combined $2.5M total

Detail of Gertrude Abercrombie’s ‘Giraffe and Moon,’ $182,700, from the May 19 American Art sale. Image courtesy of Hindman
Left, Gustave Loiseau, ‘Le quai du Pothuis a Pontoise,’ $201,600, from the May 18 European Art sale; Right, Gertrude Abercrombie, ‘Giraffe and Moon,’ $182,700, from the May 19 American Art sale. Images courtesy of Hindman
Left, Gustave Loiseau, ‘Le quai du Pothuis a Pontoise,’ $201,600, from the May 18 European Art sale; Right, Gertrude Abercrombie, ‘Giraffe and Moon,’ $182,700, from the May 19 American Art sale. Images courtesy of Hindman

CHICAGO – Hindman held back-to-back art auctions in May, one a European art sale on May 18 and the other an American art sale on May 19, which together totaled $2.5 million.

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Play on: Heritage’s 68-lot American Art sale streaks past $6M

Detail from Ernie Barnes’s ‘Quintet,’ $645,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions, ha.com
Ernie Barnes, ‘Quintet,’ $645,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions, ha.com
Ernie Barnes, ‘Quintet,’ $645,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions, ha.com

DALLAS — On May 12, Heritage Auctions showed real muscle and its own evolution in the American Art category with a finely curated event that brought a frenzy of bidders and broke auction records for a handful of beloved artists. The Diverse Visions: Important Works by American Masters Signature® Auction brought in $6,105,750. It took more than two hours to sell just 68 lots, with more than 500 bidders engaged. In addition, with the results of this auction, Heritage’s average lot value in its American Art Signature events is now just under $100,000. Works by familiar American greats, revisited stars, and increasingly desirable sleepers gave shape to an event that included Ernie Barnes, Arthur Wesley Dow, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Joseph Leyendecker and Charles White.

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Fern Coppedge winter scenes likely hot sellers at Hindman, May 19

Fern Coppedge, ‘The Lock Keepers Lodge,’ estimated at $30,000-$50,000. Image courtesy of Hindman
Fern Coppedge, ‘The Lock Keepers Lodge,’ estimated at $30,000-$50,000. Image courtesy of Hindman
Fern Coppedge, ‘The Lock Keepers Lodge,’ estimated at $30,000-$50,000. Image courtesy of Hindman

CHICAGO – A pair of Fern Coppedge winter scenes will anchor a strong group of American landscapes in Hindman’s Friday, May 19 American Art auction. The sale will provide a look at how a range of celebrated artists approached the genre. Spanning Impressionist to more abstract styles, paintings by Milton Avery, Maurice Prendergast and Wolf Kahn are also highlights. In addition to works by Fern Coppedge, paintings and sculptures by other accomplished historic and contemporary American women artists such as Gertrude Abercrombie, Miyoko Ito and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth will also be offered. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Trio of Ernie Barnes works could together top $800K at Heritage, May 12

Ernie Barnes, ‘Quintet,’ estimated at $500,000-$700,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions, ha.com
Ernie Barnes, ‘Quintet,’ estimated at $500,000-$700,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions, ha.com

Ernie Barnes, ‘Quintet,’ estimated at $500,000-$700,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions, ha.com

DALLAS — Heritage Auctions‘ Diverse Visions: Important Works by American Masters Signature® Auction, taking place Friday, May 12, promises much and is sure to deliver. Works in the sale represent the apex of American artistic achievement, with a host of both expected and unexpected pieces by names that make collectors and institutions sit up and pay attention: George Bellows, Charles White, George Tooker, Maurice Sendak and Winslow Homer. There are only 68 lots in the May 12 lineup, and each one of them is remarkable. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Plein-air masterpieces win attention, strong bids at John Moran

John Marshall Gamble ‘Poppies and Lupine Near Sta. Paula,’ $34,375
John Marshall Gamble ‘Poppies and Lupine Near Sta. Paula,’ $34,375
John Marshall Gamble ‘Poppies and Lupine Near Sta. Paula,’ $34,375

LOS ANGELES — On November 15, John Moran Auctioneers presented the autumn rendition of its California and American Fine Art sale. Leading the auction was a work by William Wendt, followed by a Theodore Earl Butler painting. Other highlighted artists included John Marshall Gamble, Colin Campbell Cooper, Margaret Keane and Christopher Blossom.

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Records set by Rothko, Dohanos at Heritage American Art sale

Mark Rothko, ‘A Last Supper,’ $1.45 million. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
Mark Rothko, ‘A Last Supper,’ $1.45 million. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
Mark Rothko, ‘A Last Supper,’ $1.45 million. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions

DALLAS – The art market showed no signs of slowing during Heritage Auctions’ American Art November 4 sale featuring choice works by Mark Rothko, Joseph Leyendecker and Thomas Moran. The event, which realized $6,895,750, broke auction records for a number of beloved American artists who have shaped the art of the last century.

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Sendak, Rothko, Finster and other greats appear at Heritage, Nov. 4

1976 Maurice Sendak illustration for a Rolling Stone cover, estimated at $120,000-$180,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
1976 Maurice Sendak illustration for a Rolling Stone cover, estimated at $120,000-$180,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
1976 Maurice Sendak illustration for a Rolling Stone cover, estimated at $120,000-$180,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions

DALLAS – Works by Maurice Sendak, Mark Rothko, Maynard Dixon, Thomas Moran and the self-taught artist Howard Finster all appear in Heritage Auctions‘ much-anticipated American Art Signature® Auction, scheduled for Friday, November 4. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Morphy’s lavish June 8-10 auction led by rare Tiffany lamp of extraordinary quality

Tiffany Studios table lamp with 20in conical leaded-glass shade in ‘Poppy’ motif exhibiting the very highest standards of Tiffany artistry. Astounding colorway and complex composition. Exceptionally rare base with 16 iridescent Favrile-glass balls as supports for the telescoping stem. Tiffany stamps to both shade and base. Estimate $350,000-$450,000

DENVER, Pa. – A fine and decorative arts selection of incomparable quality awaits bidders at Morphy Auctions on June 8, 9 and 10. The gallery is at its shining best, with rare and beautiful objects at every turn, including 75 leaded and stained-glass lamps, 100 pieces of art glass, 100+ paintings, 50 figural bronzes, 50 lots of silver, and 30 pieces of coveted Amphora pottery. Additionally, there are 30 cylinder and disc music boxes, 15 bird boxes, and long-held private collections containing 100 figural napkin rings, 80 antique, hand-blown colored-glass wedding bells; 50 figural and mechanical gadget canes; and the acclaimed Don and Mary Ann Livingston collection of antique sleigh bells. On day three, Morphy’s will unveil a sumptuous array of fine jewelry plus 30 pocket and wristwatches. Those who are not able to attend in person are invited to absentee or live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers.

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