Contemporary Art Day Auction
Contemporary Art Day Auction
The Ginny Williams Collection
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