ID 931886
Lot 115 | EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
Four Dead Trees
signed ‘Edward Hopper’ (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
20 x 28 in. (50.8 x 71.1 cm.)
Executed in 1942.
Provenance
Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York.
Trustees of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1944.
Dr. Claude M. Fuess, Andover, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1948.
Alan and Josephine Blackmer, Andover, Massachusetts, bequest from the above, 1963.
Noelle Blackmer Beatty, Washington, D.C., by descent, 1979.
Literature
G. Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New York, 1995, p. 307, no. W-338, illustrated.
G. Levin, The Complete Watercolors of Edward Hopper, New York, 2001, p. 307, no. W-338, illustrated.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Hopper, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Spain, 2012, p. 337.
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artists for Victory, December 1942.
New York, Rehn Gallery, November-December 1943.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, February 11-July 2, 1950, p. 58, no. 124.
Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art; Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Watercolors by Edward Hopper with a Selection of his Etchings, October 8, 1959-February 7, 1960, n.p., no. 41, illustrated.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Edward Hopper, September 29, 1964-May 9, 1965, pp. 47, 67, no. 127, illustrated.
Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Museum, Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Oils, Watercolors, Etchings, July-September 1971, n.p., no. 39.
Tokyo, Japan, Bunkamara Museum of Art; Fukushima, Japan, Fukushima Prefectural Museum; Hiroshima, Japan, Hiroshima Art Museum; Ibaraki, Japan, Museum of Modern Art, Edward Hopper, July 15, 1990-January 14, 1991.
Artist: | Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) |
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Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
Art style: | Modern art |
Artist: | Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) |
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Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
Art style: | Modern art |
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