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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Day Auction | 221 | $****** - ****** | The Sun |
paintings
152.4 x 121.9 cm (60 x 48 in)
oil on canvas laid down on board
signed hans hofmann and dated 52 (lower right)
Kootz Gallery, New York
Horace Richter, New York (acquired from the above in 1956)
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York, 27 May 1976, lot 314
Frank Morini, New York (acquired from the above)
Christie"s New York, 18 November 1981, lot 28
Private Collection
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in April 1985 by the present owner
New York, Kootz Gallery, The Kootz Review of 1952 , November 1952 - January 1953
Provincetown Art Association, First 1953 Exhibition, June - July 1953
Boston, Boris Mirski Art Gallery, Hans Hofmann , January 1954
Bennington College, A Retrospective Exhibition of the Paintings of Hans Hofmann , May 1955
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Hans Hofmann , March - April 1956
New Brunswick, Rutgers University, Hans Hofmann, April - May 1956, p. 1
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Des Moines Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; University of California Los Angeles, Art Galleries; Seattle Art Museum; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Hans Hofmann , January 1957 - June 1958
Howard Devree, "By Contemporaries: Paintings by a Group of Israeli Artists - A Gallery Review - Joseph Floch," New York Times , 14 August 1952, p. X9
Dorothy Adlow, "Oils and Aquarelles by Hofmann: Color by the Brushful in Display at Mirski Gallery," Christian Science Monitor , 14 January 1954
Robert M. Coates, "The Art Galleries: A Hans Hofmann Retrospective," The New Yorker , 11 May 1957, p. 106
Alfred V. Frankenstein, "Hofmann Changed the Course of American Art," San Francisco Chronicle , 8 September 1957, p. 31
Edith Hofmann, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York," Burlington Magazine , July 1957, p. 246
Kenneth B. Sawyer, "Painters Over Seventy-Five," The Hudson Review , vol. 10, no. 3, Autumn 1957, p. 445
Suzi Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume II: 1901-1951 , Surrey, 2014, no. P848, pp. 6-7, illustrated in color
The Collection of Phyllis & Jerome Lyle Rappaport
Hans Hofmann
1880 - 1966
The Sun
signed hans hofmann and dated 52 (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on board
60 by 48 in.
152.4 by 121.9 cm.
Executed in 1952.