Hans Hofmann

Provincetown - Town and Harbor

Auction Closed

September 27, 07:30 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Hans Hofmann

1880 - 1966

Provincetown - Town and Harbor

signed and dated 36 (lower right); titled, dated 1936, dedicated From us to you! / Hans and Renate Hofmann / Xmas 1965 (on the reverse)

oil on board

25 by 30 in.

63.5 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1936.

Collection of the artist

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1965)

Christie's New York, 8 May 1984, lot 4 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 4 May 1989, lot 134 (consigned by the above)

Crane Kalman Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 1990 by the present owner

William Jeffett, "Form through Space and Space through Form," Apollo 132, July 1990, p. 55 (incorrectly titled Provincetown Harbour)

Suzi Villiger, Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume II: 1901-1951, Surrey 2014, no. P102, p. 67, illustrated in color

New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann: The First Showing of Landscapes Created from 1936-1939, April - May 1953

London, Crane Gallery; Berlin, Galerie Michael Haas, Hans Hofmann (1880-1966): A Selection of Paintings and Watercolours, June - November 1990, no. 2, n.p., illustrated in color

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Two Points Atlantic: St Ives and Provincetown, November - December 2017, p. 53, illustrated in color (and on the cover)