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Property from a Distinguished American Estate

Edward Hopper

Monhegan Lighthouse

Session begins in

May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Bid

1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Estate

Edward Hopper

1882 - 1967


Monhegan Lighthouse

oil on board

9 ½ by 12 ⅞ in.

24.1 by 32.7 cm.

Executed in 1916-19.

Estate of the artist

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Mr. and Mrs. John Clancy, New York (acquired from the above by 1971)

Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired after 1973)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above by 1974)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Oils, Watercolors, Etchings, 1971, no. 4 (titled Monhegan)

Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art, Sound and Silence: Charles E. Burchfield, 1893-1967, Edward Hopper, 1882-1967, 1973, no. 43 (titled Monhegan)

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Edward Hopper at Kennedy Galleries, 1977, no. 9, illustrated in color (titled Lighthouse)

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; The Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, 1980-82, pp. 43 and 162, pl. 189, illustrated in color (titled Lighthouse)

Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; Hiroshima Museum of Art and Ibaraki, The Museum of Modern Art, Edward Hopper, 2000-01, no. 47, p. 85, illustrated in color

Gail Levin, Hopper's Places, New York, 1989, p. 33, pl. 3, illustrated in color

Jane Curtis, Will Curtis and Frank Lieberman, Monhegan: The Artists’ Island, Camden, Maine, 1995, p. 60, illustrated in color

Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, New York, 1995, no. O-204, p. 131, illustrated in color

Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, Updated and Expanded Edition, 2007, p. 688, pl. 12, illustrated in color