Property from an Important Private Collection

Norman Rockwell

It's the Cream of Kentucky, It's the Favorite of the World (Portrait of Hunter Sniffing Drink)

Auction Closed

November 22, 10:23 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Norman Rockwell

1894 - 1978

It's the Cream of Kentucky, It's the Favorite of the World (Portrait of Hunter Sniffing Drink)

signed NORMAN ROCKWELL (lower right)

mixed media on paperboard

sheet: 13 by 13 inches (33 by 33 cm)

framed: 20 ¾ by 20 ¼ inches (52.7 by 51.4 cm)

Executed in 1940.

The paperboard is affixed to the mat. The sheet appears to be lightly toned. There are glue remnants from a former mounting in the outer margins beneath the mat. There are a few pindots of surface accretion in the background.

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Schenley Kentucky Whiskey Company, Lawrenceburg, Indiana, 1940

George Arden, New York

Mrs. George Arden, New York (by descent)

Charles Flint Fine Art and Antiques Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009

Life, February 12, 1940, p. 43, illustrated
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. A732, p. 530-31, illustrated

The present work was originally used as an advertisement for Schenley Kentucky Whiskey Company.