Property from a Prestigious Private Collection
Hans Hofmann
1880 - 1966
Lava
signed hans hofmann and dated '60 (lower right); signed again, titled, dated
1960 and inscribed Cat #1017 oil on canvas 72 x 60 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
72 by 60 in.
182.8 by 152.4 cm.
Executed in 1960.
Condition Report
Provenance
Kootz Gallery (Sam Salz), New York
Paul Tishman, New York (acquired in 1961)
André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired in 1976)
James Johnson, New Jersey
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Ruthe and Heinz Eppler, New York (acquired from the above in 1980)
Christie’s, New York, 15 November 2017, lot 20B (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Asia (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Carlyle Burrows, "Hofmann Event," New York Herald Tribune, 12 March 1961, p. D19
Robert M. Coates, "The Art Galleries: The Splendid Century," The New Yorker, vol. 37, no. 6, 25 March 1961, p. 128
Irving H. Sandler, "Reviews and Previews," ARTnews, vol. 60, no. 2, April 1961, p. 10
Irving H. Sandler, "New York Letter," Art International, vol. 4, 1 May 1961, p. 53
Sam Hunter, ed., Hans Hofmann, New York, 1963, pl. 130, illustrated in color
Harold Rosenberg, "The Art Galleries: Hans Hofmann and the Stability of the New," The New Yorker, vol. 39, no. 57, 2 November 1963, pp. 100 and 103
“Resumen de noticias de America: Estatos Unidos,” Boletín de artes visuales, no. 11, January-December 1963, p. 101, illustrated (detail)
Sam Hunter, “Abstract Expressionism Then – and Now,” Canadian Art, no. 93, September-October 1964, p. 266, illustrated
Harold Rosenberg, The Anxious Object: Art Today and Its Audience, New York, 1964, p. 248 (dated 1961)
Samuel Kootz, "The Credibility of Color, Hans Hofmann: An Area of Optimism," Arts Magazine, vol. 41, no. 4, February 1967, p. 38
Gwen Kinkead, "The Spectacular Fall and Rise of Hans Hofmann," ARTnews, vol. 79, no. 6, Summer 1980, p. 96
Cynthia Goodman, Hans Hofmann, New York, 1986, p. 84
Richard Wollheim, "Hans Hofmann: The Final Years," Modern Painters, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 1988, p. 16
James Yohe, ed., Hans Hofmann, New York, 2002, p. 206, illustrated in color
Jed Perl, New Art City, New York, 2005, p. 6
Suzi Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. III, London, 2014, no. P1270, pp. 270-271, illustrated in color
Exhibited
New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann, March 1961, n.p., illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Hans Hofmann, 1963, no. 21, pl. 4, pp. 43-46, illustrated; p. 64; n.p, illustrated in color and illustrated on the cover (detail) (New York only)
Cambridge, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The MIT Art Collection: Selections from the MIT Art Collection and Loans from Members of the Art Committee, 1967, n.p., illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Art at Mid-Century 1, 1973-74, n.p., illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1976-77, fig. 49, pp. 14, 18, 21, 27 and 33, illustrated in color and p. 88, illustrated
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art of Collecting Modern Art, 1986, fig. 12, n.p., illustrated in color
London, Tate Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Late Paintings, 1988, no. 13, p. 38, illustrated in color (dated 1959)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts and Norfolk, The Chrysler Museum, Hans Hofmann, 1990-91, no. 93, p. 120, illustrated in color (New York only)