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Hans Hofmann

The Red Pointer

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Hans Hofmann

1880 - 1966


The Red Pointer

signed, titled and dated 1951 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

30 ¼ by 24 ¼ in.

76.8 by 61.6 cm.

Executed in 1951.

Kootz Gallery, New York (acquired in 1951)

Sayde Moss, Los Angeles (acquired circa 1951)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

New York, Kootz Gallery, New Paintings by Hans Hofmann, November - December 1951, n.p., illustrated

Suzi Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume II: Catalogue Entries P1-P846 (1901-1951), Burlington 2014, no. 918, p. 503, illustrated in color