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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 29, 2021 | Beurret & Bailly Auktionen | Basel | Moderne und Zeitgenössische Kunst | 113 | $****** - ****** | Birth of Taurus |
paintings
132.1 x 121.9 cm (52 x 48 in)
Oil on wood panel
Signed and dated lower right Hans Hofmann VII.30.45...; Inscribed and dated BIRTH OF TAURUS - 48 to 52 1945 on the reverse
Kootz Gallery, New York (1951)
Collection Fred H. Olsen, Guilford, CT (1951-1983)
Auktion Sotheby"s, New York, 18.5.1983, Los 446
Auktion Sotheby"s, New York, 10.11.1986, Los 17
Hans Hofmann, Recent Paintings, New York, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, 18.3.-30.3.1946.
Hans Hofmann, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 24.4.1957-17.6.1958, Des Moines, Art Center, 4.7.-4.8.1957, San Francisco, Museum of Art, 21.8.-22.9.1957, Los Angeles, Art Galleries of the University of California, 6.10.-4.11.1957, Seattle, Art Museum, 11.12.1957-12.1.1958, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 7.2.-11.3.1958, Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 28.3.-30.4.1958, Baltimore, Museum of Art, 13.5.-17.6.1958, Kat.-Nr. 13.
Suzi Villiger, Hans Hofmann, Catalogue raisonné of paintings, Vol. II: Catalogue entries P1-P846 (1901-1951), London, Lund Humphries Publ., 2014, S. 314, Nr. P517, mit Abb.
Edward Alden Jewell, Accent on Modernism, Sculpture by Three at Grand Central-Hofmann, Gatch, Bohrod and Others, New York Times, 24.3.1946, S. 54.
A Master Teacher, Hans Hofmann Influenced Three Decades of U. S. Art, Life 42, Nr. 14, 8.4.1957, S. 74.
Alfred V. Frankenstein, Hofmann Changed the Course of American Art, San Francisco Chronicle, 8.9.1957, S. 31.
Elizabeth Pollet, Hans Hofmann, Art 31, Nr. 8, Mai 1957, S. 33, mit Abb. S. 30.
Robert Rosenblum, Unité et divergences de la peinture américaine, la peinture américaine depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, Aujourd"hui 3, Nr. 18, Juli 1958, S. 13/14, mit Abb. S. 17.
Dore Ashton, Gli inizi dell"espressionismo astratto in America, L"Arte Moderna 13, Nr. 109, 1967, S. 5, mit Abb.
Harold Rosenberg, The Teaching of Hans Hofmann, Arts Magazine 45, Nr. 3, Dezember 1970/Januar 1971, mit Abb. S. 18.
Elisabeth C. Baker, Hans Hofmann, Abstract-Expressionism and Color in New York 1945-65, Art News Annual 37, edited by Thomas B. Hess und John Ashbery, 1971, S. 115.
Cynthia Goodmann, Hans Hofmann, Modern Masters Series 10, New York, Abbeville Press, 1986, S. 45.
Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art, Selected Essays, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1999, S. 63/64, mit Abb. S. 64.
Hans Hofmann 1880-1966
Birth of Taurus, 1945
Oil on wood panel
Signed and dated lower right Hans Hofmann VII.30.45...
Inscribed and dated BIRTH OF TAURUS - 48 to 52 1945 on the reverse
52" x 48"
