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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 40 | $****** - ****** | MOONSHINE SONATA |
paintings
198.1 x 214.3 cm (77.99 x 84.37 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 61, signed, titled, dated 1961 and inscribed Cat. #1309 on the reverse
Estate of the Artist (Estate no. M-013-C)
André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1968)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1968)
André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1972)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1972)
Acquired by the present owner as of 1990
New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann: New Paintings, January 1962
Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Artists of the Kootz Gallery, April - May 1962, n.p., no. 7, illustrated
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Waltham, Brandeis University, The Rose Art Museum; New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Berkeley, University of California, University Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art; Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna; Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg (Amerika Haus); and Bielefeld, Städtisches Kunsthaus, Hans Hofmann, September 1963 - October 1965, p. 52, no. 25, illustrated (1963 English edition), n.p., no. 22, illustrated (1965 Dutch and German editions) and n.p., no. 22, illustrated in color (1965 Italian edition)
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Hans Hofmann, January 1968, n.p., illustrated in color
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Paintings, January - March 1968, n.p., illustrated in color
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts; and Norfolk, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Hans Hofmann, June 1990 - April 1991, p. 73, no. 63, illustrated in color and p. 72 (text)
Brian O'Doherty, "Profound Changes: Hofmann Display at Kootz Shows He Has Cast His Work into Melting Pot Again," The New York Times, January 4, 1962, p. 27 (text)
Vivien Raynor, "In the Galleries: Hans Hofmann," Arts Magazine 36, February 1962, p. 39 (text)
W.C. Burnett, "Ringling Painting Exhibit Has Variety," Sarasota Herald-Tribune, April 8, 1962, p. 10 (text)
Sam Hunter, Hans Hofmann, New York, 1963, no. 163, illustrated in color
Brian O'Doherty, "Hans Hofmann: A Style of Old Age," The New York Times, September 15, 1963, p. 23, illustrated (in installation at the Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Harold Rosenberg, "The Art Galleries: Hans Hofmann and the Stability of the New," The New Yorker 39, No. 57, November 2, 1963, p. 100 (text)
Harold Rosenberg, The Anxious Object: Art Today and Its Audience, New York, 1964, p. 248 (text), p. 248 (text) (1966 Edition) and p. 203 (text) (1969 Edition)
Rae Perlin, "Hans Hofmann - Painter and Teacher," Daily News (St. John's, Newfoundland), January 12, 1965, p. 10, illustrated
James Fitzsimmons, "Hans Hofmann," Arts Magazine 42, No. 3, December 1967/January 1968, p. 57 (text)
Charlotte Willard, "In the Art Galleries: The Color Question," New York Post Sunday Magazine, January 20, 1968, p. 14 (text)
John Ashbery, "Reviews and Previews," ARTnews 66, No. 10, February 1968, p. 13 (text)
Edward Barry, "City Gets Look at Hofmann," Chicago Tribune, February 14, 1968, p. B1, illustrated in color
Franz Schulze, "Bigger Is More and Vice-Versa in Today's Art," Chicago Daily News, February 17, 1968, p. 7 (text)
Walter Darby Bannard, "Hofmann's Rectangles," Artforum 7, No. 10, Summer 1969, p. 41 (text)
Robert Peter Miller, "Some Thoughts on Hans Hofmann," Mulch 3, No. 2, Winter - Spring 1975, p. 26 (text)
"Inspired Teacher," MD Medical News Magazine 22, No. 11, November 1978, p. 133, illustrated
Gwen Kinkead, "The Spectacular Fall and Rise of Hans Hofmann," ARTnews 79, No. 6, Summer 1980, pp. 94-95 (text)
Helen L. Kohen, "Hofmann: Teacher of Geniuses," Miami Herald, November 18, 1990, p. 5I (text)
James Yohe, Ed., Hans Hofmann, New York, 2002, p. 254, illustrated in color
Jed Perl, New Art City, New York, 2005, p. 6 (text)
Suzi Villiger, Ed., Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume III: 1952-1965, London, 2014, p. 309, cat. no. P1331, illustrated in color
signed and dated 61; signed, titled, dated 1961 and inscribed Cat. #1309 on the reverse
oil on canvas
78 by 84 3/8 in. 198.1 by 214.3 cm.
