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EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)

Lot 138
10.11.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 839028
Lot 138 | EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)

Gloucester Roofs

signed 'Edward Hopper/Gloucester' (lower right)

watercolor and pencil on paper

14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm.)

Executed in 1928





Provenance

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York (1928).

Edward Wales Root, Clinton, New York (acquired from the above, 1929).

Mrs. and Mrs. Wilson H. and Mary D. Kierstead, New York and London (after 1962).

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (1981).

Mr. and Mrs. James A. and Edith Hall Fisher, Pittsburgh (acquired from the above).

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2016.



Literature

Record Book I, p. 68.

W. Enstice and M. Peters, Drawing: Space, Form and Expression, Englewood Cliffs, 1990, p. 127 (illustrated).

G. Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New York, 1995, p. 177, no. W-208 (illustrated in color).

G. Levin, The Complete Watercolors of Edward Hopper, New York, 2001, p. 177, no. W-208 (illustrated in color).

“Preserved in Paint: Hopper Works Capture a Gloucester That Some Fear is Fading” in Boston Globe, 27 May 2007, p. N7.



Exhibited

New York, Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, Exhibition by Edward Hopper, January-February 1929, no. 21.

New York, Balzac Gallery, American Watercolors, October 1931.

Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, International Water Colors, June-July 1932, no. 31.

Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Edward Hopper: The Watercolors, October 1999-March 2000, pp. 81-82, 86, 97 and 158, no. 88 (illustrated in color, p. 82).

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Edward Hopper, May 2007-May 2008, pp. 78-79, no. 34 (illustrated in color, p. 78).



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