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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Morning Session | 191 | $****** - ****** | Setting Sun | |||
May 16, 2013 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Morning Session | 186 | $****** - ****** | Setting Sun |
paintings
132.4 x 152.7 cm (52.13 x 60.12 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'hans hofmann 57' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'setting sun hans hofmann 1957' (on the reverse)
Kootz Gallery, New York The David and Elizabeth Kruidenier Collection, Iowa, 1961
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 16 May 2013, lot 186
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Kootz Gallery, New York, New Paintings by Hans Hofmann , January 1958, no. 8 (listed as Setting Sun II ). New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Cleveland, Howard Wise Gallery; Georgetown, Texas, Southwestern University; Tempe, Arizona State University; Santa Fe, Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico; Jacksonville Art Museum; St. Louis, Washington University; Baton Rouge, Louisiana State College; Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery; Richmond, Indiana, Art Association of Richmond; North Canton, Little Art Gallery; Fort Hays Kansas State College and Columbus, Georgia, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors & Drawings , November 1958-May 1960, no. 93. Des Moines Art Center, Six Decades of American Painting of the Twentieth Century , February-March 1961, no. 66. Des Moines Art Center, Art in Iowa from Private Collections , November-December 1963, no. 24 (illustrated). Des Moines Art Center, Iowa Collects , May-June 1985, pp. 33 and 50 (illustrated as Setting Sun II )
R. Coates, "Art Galleries: The Whitney Annual," The New Yorker , no. 41, 29 November 1953, p. 169. S. Hunter, Hans Hofmann , New York, 1963, pl. 74 (illustrated as Setting Sun II ). S. Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume III (1952-1965) , Farnham, 2014, p. 139, no. P1064 (illustrated)
