Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Edward Hopper
Summer Twilight
Auction Closed
April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward Hopper
1882 - 1967
Summer Twilight
signed in pencil Edward Hopper (erased and resigned by the artist), also inscribed on the verso etching "Summer Twilight" / $18 / Edward Hopper/ 75 prints 3 Washington Square North / New York
etching on wove paper
plate: 8¼ x 9¾ in. (21.2 x 25 cm.)
sheet: 13¼ x 15¼ in. (33.8 x 38.5 cm.)
Executed in 1920; this very fine impression of the extremely rare subject is from the intended edition of 75, of which only a small number of proofs are known.
Sotheby's New York, November 1, 1991, lot 43
Wolf Family Collection No. 1024 (acquired from the above)
Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints, New York and London, 1979, pl. 73, illustrated
Carl Zigrosser, The Complete Graphic Work of Edward Hopper, New York, 1962, no. 25, illustrated