Lot 12
  • 12

Edward Hopper

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Edward Hopper
  • Study for 'A Woman in the Sun'
  • charcoal on paper
  • image: 7 3/4 by 10 1/4 inches (19.7 by 26 cm)
  • sheet: 8 3/8 by 11 inches (21.3 by 27.9 cm)
  • Executed in 1961.

Provenance

Peter Findlay Gallery and James Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2005

Exhibited

San Francisco, California, Fraenkel Gallery, Edward Hopper & Company, March-May 2009, no. 40, illustrated, n.p.

Literature

Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, New York, 1995, p. 368, illustrated fig. 360.3

Catalogue Note

“As a draftsman he was an absolute master of light and tone and could create subtle gradations of sublime effect.  And although Hopper did not make finished ‘presentation’ drawings as stand alone pieces, the degree of resolution of his best drawings put them in the realm of his great paintings.” (Carter Foster, “Edward Hopper: Drawing into Painting” in Edward Hopper, New York, 2009, p. 25)