CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman’s American and European Art sale will be conducted on October 17 at 10am CST at the Chicago sale room (1338 W. Lake St.). Notable highlights include Henry Moret, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Dufy, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Childe Hassam, Fern Isabel Coppedge and Thomas Hart Benton.

The auction features works on paper by Impressionist masters, including a landscape by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled Bord de mer Méditerranée ($50,000 - $70,000). Additional highlights include Henry Moret’s L'Ile de Ouessant, le soir ($80,000 - $120,000) and Jean Dufy’s Sevilla ($20,000 – $30,000).

Also for sale is a wonderful example of Thomas Hart Benton’s commissioned work, Whiskey Barrels (or Whiskey Barrels Going into the Rackhouse to Age) at an estimated $600,000 - $800,000. The artist’s work has shown strong results at Hindman in the past, his 1967 Discussion selling for $1,052,500 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' evening sale on May 20, 2015. A snowy landscape painting by Fern Isabel Coppedge will be offered, with an estimate of $50,000 – $70,000, and a charming Autumn Landscape by Jasper Francis Cropsey ($30,000 – $50,000) will round out the sale.

The catalog for the October 17 auction is available now here.

Whiskey Barrels
The work was commissioned by Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Limited for use in Imperial Whiskey advertisements and has an estimated value of $600,000 - $800,000. Founder of Imperial Whiskey, Hiram Walker, pioneered the process of barrel-aging whiskey, which was previously made by pouring the spirit over charcoals. Whiskey Barrels was reproduced in a full-page advertisement in the June 3,1946 edition of Life Magazine and was rediscovered in a Canadian warehouse in the 1980s. It has hung in the Maker’s Mark boardroom in Loretto, Kentucky until recently, when the painting was lent to the Frazier History Museum in Louisville for their exhibition titled Whiskey’s Artistic Side.