Hans Hofmann

American/German, 1880–1966

The Eye, 1952

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Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 153.7 x 92.7 cm. (60.5 x 36.5 in.)
Markings: dated and signed ’52 Hans Hofmann’ (lower right); inscribed ‘Gallery Kootz - “The eye - 36 ½ - 60 ½’ (on the verso)

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London

About this Artwork

Provenance: Estate of the artist
Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust (acquired from the above in 1996 until 2007)
Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York
Kivisto Niemira Gallery, Chicago
Eric & Debbie Green, USA (acquired in 2007)
Exhibitions: 01/16/2023–04/07/2023 UK vs USA: Post-War to Present
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, 1952-53
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., American University, Watkins Gallery, Paintings By Hans Hofmann, 1954
Florida, Naples Museum of Art, Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective, 2003-04, no. 27 (illustrated)
Chicago, Kivisto Niemira Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Exuberant Eye, 2007, p. 41 (illustrated)
California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction, 2019, pl. 37 (illustrated)
Literature: J. Yohe, Hans Hofmann, 2002, p. 146 (illustrated)
D. Forman, Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony, vol. 1, 2014, p. 140 (illustrated)
S. Villiger, Ed., Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume III: Catalogue Entries P847-PW89 (1952-1965), London, 2014, p. 25, no. P877 (illustrated)

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“[Hofmann's] paint surfaces breathe as no others do, opening up to animate the air around them.”
C. Greenberg, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hans Hofmann, 1990, p. 129

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