JANE SAUER GALLERY - Cindy Hickok SOLD

"RECOMMENDED DAILY ALLOWANCE"
Cindy Hickok
Rayon threads, machine embroidery
10" x 10" (Framed)
$1,200
SOLD

"SUGAR HIGH"
Cindy Hickok
Rayon threads, machine embroidery
10" x 10" (Framed)
$1,200
SOLD

It’s the end of the day at the Chicago Art Institute,
and the regulars step down and hurry home.

Those rushing for home are adapted from (foreground, left to right):
Women from Arlesiennes (Mistral), by Paul Gaugin
Couple from Paris Street, Rainy Day, by Gustave Caillebotte
Young Woman in a Garden, by Berthe Morisot
Madame Cezanne (in a Yellow Chair), by Paul Cezanne
American Gothic, by Grant Wood
The Laundress, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Dancer from Two Dancers, by Edgar Degas
Figure from Sunday on the Island of Le Grande Jatte, by
Georges Seurat
Celebrating the end of the workday, on right:
Figure from Bar-Room Scene, by William Sidney Mount

Familiarity leads us to paintings and painters we enjoy most, as
gallery owners and museum curators know only too well. Among the
favorites selected for this presentation are, from top:

Senecio, by Paul Klee
Self-Portrait, 1889, by Vincent VanGogh
La Chambre D’Ecoute, by Rene Magritte
The Scream, by Edvard Munch
Hay Ricks, by Claude Monet
Yvette Gilbert, by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Two Women on the Beach, by Paul Gaugin
Combing the Hair, by Edgar Degas
Reclining Nude on Red Couch, by Amedeo Modigliani
The Laundresses, by Edgar Degas

Admirers are derived from gallery painters, with adaptations by
Cindy Hickok.

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"THINKING OF ABROAD FROM HOME"
Cindy Hickok
Freehand machine embroidery (rayon threads), walnut chair frame is handmade
.15" x 11" x 8"
$5,800
SOLD

"EXERCISE...TO BROADEN THE MIND AND NARROW THE HIPS"
Cindy Hickok
Freehand machine embroidery (rayon threads)
11 1/2" x 19" (Framed)
$2,200
SOLD

"GOD BLESS AMERICA"
Cindy Hickok
Freehand machine embroidery (rayon threads)
14" x 30" (Framed)
$2,800
SOLD

A wave of the flag to loyal small-town parade-goers, who are
often seen by more parade participants than those in the parade.

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"IT'S A BALANCING ACT"
Cindy Hickok
Freehand machine embroidery (rayon threads)
21 1/2" x 11" (Framed)
$2,400
SOLD

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"SURROUNDED BY PLASTIC FERNS, ONE THINKS PLASTIC THOUGHTS"
Cindy Hickok
Freehand machine embroidery (rayon threads)
15" x 11" (Framed)
$1,800
SOLD

"TEA AT THE MET"
Cindy Hickok
Freehand machine embroidery (rayon threads)
16 1/2" x 27" (Framed)
$4,900
SOLD

Behind closed doors at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, when visitors
have left the building, the figures in our favorite paintings leave their
backgrounds and join their cohorts in the dining room for tea.

Tea Drinkers inspired by:
Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein
Edward Hopper, Table for Ladies
Camille Pissaro, Washerwoman
Amadeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hebuterne
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne in a Red Dress
Mary Cassatt, Lady at the Tea Table
Pierre Bonnard, The Green Blouse
Auguste Renoir, A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman in the Garden of Monsieur Forest
John Singleton Copley, Mrs. John Winthrop

Table Centerpiece adapted from Paul Gaugin's la Orana Maria

"UNRUFFLED"
Cindy Hickok
Freehand machine embroidery (rayon threads)
12" x 18 1/2" x 11"
$7,500
SOLD

Embroidery over a deconstructed sewing machine; walnut base.
A tongue-on-cheek look at others who, like I, spend time
at the sewing machine but have nothing to wear.

"WAITING..."
Cindy Hickok
Freehand machine embroidery (rayon threads)
19" x 28" (Framed)
$5,800
SOLD

…For inspiration to strike?
…For the next paycheck?
…For the next meal?
…For tomorrow to come?

From center, bottom, clockwise:
Mary Cassatt, Revery
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Interrupted Reading
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Parlor at Rude des Moulines
Frederic Bazille, The Pink Dress
Edgar Degas, Waiting
Auguste Rodin, The Thinker
Camille Pissarro, Woman (and Child) at the Well
Pierre-August Renoir, Near the Lake
Edouard Vuillard, Felix Vallatton
John Singer Sargent, Repose
Edouard Manet, Portrait of Stephane Mallarme
Vincent VanGogh, Sorrowing Old Man
Gustave Caillebotte, LePont de l’Europe
Berthe Morisot, On the Balcony
Pablo Picasso, Harlequin
Lucie Cousturier, Woman Crocheting
Jean-Louis Forain, The Widower
Georges Seurat, The Bathers