Lot 46
  • 46

Edward Hopper 1882 - 1967

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Edward Hopper
  • Church in Eastham
  • signed Edward Hopper (lower right)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 21 5/8 by 26 5/8 inches
  • (54.9 by 67.6 cm)
  • Executed in 1948.

Provenance

Josephine N. Hopper (the artist’s wife)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1968 (bequest from the above)

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Palm Beach, Florida, The Society of the Four Arts; Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Museum; La Jolla, California, La Jolla Museum of Art; Sacramento, California, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center; Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Richmond, Virginia, Richmond Museum of Fine Arts; Athens, Georgia, Athens Museum of Art; Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Art Center; Toledo, Ohio, The Toledo Museum of Art; Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts; Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Edward Hopper: Selections from the Bequest to the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 1971-May 1974, no. 91, illustrated p. 51
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, Edward Hopper: Paintings, Prints, Drawings, July-August 1974
Nyack, New York, The Edward Hopper Landmark Preservation Foundation, Welcome Home Edward Hopper, June-July 1976
Adelaide, Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia; Melbourne, Australia, National Gallery of Victoria; Sydney, Australia, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, The World of Edward Hopper: Selections from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, March-August 1982
Hempstead, New York, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, 1935: The Year and the Arts, April-June 1985, illustrated p. 4
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper: Selections from the Permanent Collection, July-November 1989
Humlebaek, Denmark, Louisiana Museum; Brussels, Belgium, Les Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts; Frankfurt, Germany, Schirn Kunsthalle, Edward Hopper, January 1992-February 1993, no. 94, p. 202, illustrated in color p. 122
Asheville, North Carolina, Asheville Art Museum, The Nature of Inspiration: Modern Masters from the Whitney Museum of American Art, October 1999-January 2000
Rome, Italy, Fondazione Roma Museo; Lausanne, Switzerland, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Edward Hopper, October 2009-October 2010, no. 7.23, p. 262, illustrated in color p. 246

Literature

Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, New York and London, 1980, illustrated in color p. 182
Susan Larsen, Deborah Lyons and Paul Levine, "Edward Hopper," Louisiana Revy, vol. 32, no. 2, January 1992, no. 94, p. 67
Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1995, no. W-352, p. 321, illustrated in color
Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Edward Hopper: The Watercolors, New York and London, 1999, pp. 163, 170-71 n. 13, 173 n. 57

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. The color is extremely fresh and vibrant. There are tack marks along all four edges of the sheet outside of the image.
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