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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2022 | Bonhams | New York | The Estate of Melvin S. Rosenthal | 2A | $****** - ****** | Let There Be Light (And the Sun Beautiful as She Was and Pregnant – Scattered Her Colours All over the Earth) - |
paintings
130.8 x 227.3 cm (51.5 x 89.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed; signed with the artist's initials, titled, dated 1955-1961 and variously inscribed on the reverse
Collection of the artist, New York (843-1956)
Estate of the artist, New York (M-1045)
Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust, New York
Ameringer Howard Fine Art, New York (A/H #1616)
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2000
New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann: New Paintings , 1957
Salt Lake City, University of Utah Department of Art, Nine American Painters: The Fourth Annual Invitational Exhibition of the University of Utah Department of Art , 1958
Nuremberg, Fränkische Galerie am Marientor, Hans Hofmann , 1962-1963, n. 81
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Large-Scale Master Paintings and Sculpture , 1984
London, The Tate Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Late Paintings , 1988, p. 41, n. 16, illustrated in colour
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Paintings 1937-1961 , 1989
Santa Fe, Bellas Artes Gallery, Masterworks of Contemporary Sculpture, Painting and Drawing, the 1930s to the 1990s , 1991
Santa Fe, Riva Yares Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Selected Paintings , 1997
New York, Ameringer Howard Fine Art, Hans Hofmann: Late Paintings from the Hofmann Estate , 1999
Boca Raton, Ameringer Howard Fine Art, Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition , 1999
James Yohe, Ed., Hans Hofmann , New York 2002, p. 229, illustrated in colour
Suzi Villiger, Ed., Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings; Volume III , Surrey 2014, p. 313, n. P1335, illustrated in colour
HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)
Let There Be Light (And the Sun Beautiful as She Was and Pregnant - Scattered Her Colours All over the Earth)
1955-1961
signed; signed with the artist's initials, titled, dated 1955-1961 and variously inscribed on the reverse
oil on canvas, in an artist's frame
51 1/2 by 89 1/2 in.
130.8 by 227.3 cm.
