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The Ginny Williams Collection

HANS HOFMANN | QUARTET

Auction Closed

June 30, 09:53 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Ginny Williams Collection

HANS HOFMANN

1880 - 1966

QUARTET


signed and dated 49

oil on canvas

50 by 50 in. 127 by 127 cm.

framed: 51¼ by 51 ¼ in. 130.2 by 130.2 cm.

Estate of the artist

André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1984)

Sally Sirkin Lewis Interior Design, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1984)

Private Collection

Christie’s, New York, 17 May 2001, Lot 105

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Robert Motherwell and Ad Reinhardt, Eds., Modern Artists in America, First Series, New York 1952, p. 53, illustrated

Irving Sandler, "Hans Hofmann and the Challenge of Synthetic Cubism," Arts Magazine, Vol. 50, No. 8, April 1976, p. 103, illustrated

William Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, Cambridge 1983, fig. 127, illustrated

Suzi Villiger, Ed., Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume II: 1901-1951, Surrey 2014, cat. no. P701, p. 426, illustrated in color

Urbana, University of Illinois, Smith Music Hall, Music in Art, February - April 1950

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Hans Hoffman: The Years 1947 - 1952, April 1976, illustrated in color