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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 597 | $****** - ****** | X Orange |
paintings
132.7 x 153 cm (52.25 x 60.25 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated "hans hofmann 59" (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again "X orange 1959 hans hofmann" (on the reverse)
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York
Mari and James A. Michener, Austin, 1961
Gift of the above to the present owner, 1991
New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Paintings of 1959 , January 1960, n.p.
New York, Kootz Gallery, 16 American and European Artists , May 1960, n.p. (illustrated).
East Hampton, Signa Gallery, Opening Exhibition , June-July 1960.
East Hampton, Signa Gallery, Second Exhibition , July-August 1960.
Pennsylvania State University, Hetzel Union Building Gallery, University Park, James Michener, Art Collector , March-April 1962, n.p., no. 8 (illustrated).
Allentown Art Museum, The James A. Michener Foundation Collection , February-March 1963, n.p., no. 46 (illustrated).
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Selections from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection , October 1963, n.p., no. 22 (illustrated).
New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art , The James A. Michener Foundation Collection , December 1963-January 1964.
Allentown Art Museum; Adelaide, National Gallery of South Australia; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery; Newcastle City Art Gallery; Hobart, Tasmania Art Gallery; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Perth, Western Australia Art Gallery; Auckland City Art Gallery; National Art Gallery of Wellington; Christchurch, Robert McDougall Art Gallery; Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Honolulu Academy of Arts, Contemporary American Painting from the James A. Michener Collection , March 1964-December 1965, n.p., no. 17.
Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Selections from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection , April-May 1966.
Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts; Storrs, University of Connecticut; Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum; Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University; East Lansing, Michigan State University; Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; New London, Lyman Allyn Museum; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Oklahoma Art Center; Charleston, Gibbes Museum of Art; Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, University Art Museum and Knoxville, Dulin Gallery of Art, Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection , January 1967-April 1969, pp. 10 and 24, no. 23 (illustrated).
Beaumont, Wilson Memorial Art Center, Selections from the Michener Collection, The University of Texas at Austin , July-August 1970.
University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century , November 1972-March 1973.
University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, Abstract Expressionism: The First and Second Generations, Selected from Paintings in the Michener Collection , September-November 1973 .
University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, Twentieth Century American Painting: The First Five Decades, from the Michener Collection , July 1974-January 1975, n.p., no. 52.
University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, A Retrospective View; An Exhibition of Paintings from the Michener Collection , February-March 1975, n.p. (illustrated).
University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, Figure & Form 1960-1970: Selections from the Michener Collection , May-August 1978.
University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, Mainstreams in 20th-Century American Painting: Selections from the Michener Collection , February-May 1979.
S. Hunter, Hans Hofmann , New York, 1963, pl. 118 (illustrated).
Hirsch, Bulletin of the National Gallery of South Australia , 1964, p. 7 (illustrated).
Texas Quarterly , vol. XIII, no. 1, Spring 1970, n.p. (illustrated).
E. Gratovich, 20th-Century Concert Etudes for Solo Violin , Somerville, 1991 (illustrated on the record cover).
A.D. Carlozzi and K. Baum, eds., Blanton Museum of Art: American Art since 1900 , Austin, 2006, pp. 136 and 138, pl. 68 (illustrated).
S. Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume III: Catalogue Entries 1952-1965 , Burlington, 2014, p. 211 (illustrated).
HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)
X Orange
signed and dated "hans hofmann 59" (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again "X orange 1959 hans hofmann" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
52 ¼ x 60 ¼ in. (132.7 x 153 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
