Hans Hofmann

Estate of the Artist
André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto
Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Klein, Bloomfield Hills (acquired from the above in 1973)
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham
Acquired by the present owner from the above in May 1983

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Hans Hofmann, Peintures, January - February 1949
Bennington College, A Retrospective Exhibition of the Paintings of Hans Hofmann, May 1955
New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Early Paintings, January 1959
Nuremberg, Fränkische Galerie am Marientor; Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein; Berlin, Kongreßhalle; Städtische Galerie München Lenbachpalais, Hans Hofmann, April 1962 -Janurary 1963
Toronto, David Mirvish Gallery, Hans Hofmann: The Thirties Through the Sixties, April - May 1972
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Hans Hofmann, A Retrospective, October 1976 - April 1977, cat. no. 8, pp. 30 and 50, illustrated in color and black and white

Clement Greenberg, "Hans Hofmann: Grand Old Rebel," ARTnews 57, no. 9, January 1959, p. 29
Clement Greenberg, Hofmann. The Pocket Museum, Paris, 1961
Jesse Murray, "Hans Hofmann's Use of Nature as Aesthetic Norm," Arts Magazine 55, no. 6, February 1981, p. 108

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"In certain other pictures, however, Hofmann anticipated himself alone. Summer Glory of 1944 and Conjurer of 1946 declare the impastoed, non-linear manner which, in my view, was his most consistently successful one in the ten years after 1948. Here color determines form from the inside as it were; thick splotches, welts, smears, and ribbons of paint dispose themselves into intelligible shapes the instant they hit the surface; out of the fullness of color come drawing and design." - Clement Greenberg, 1961