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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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