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Property Sold To Benefit The Walker Art Center

Hans Hofmann

Smiling Pasture

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold To Benefit The Walker Art Center

Hans Hofmann

1880 - 1966


Smiling Pasture

signed hans hofmann and dated 64 (lower right); signed hans hofmann, titled and dated 1964 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

39 by 31 in.

99 by 78.7 cm.

Executed in 1964.

Private Collection

André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1976)

Judy Dayton, Minneapolis (acquired from the above in 1977)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 2022 by the present owner

Suzi Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume III: 1901-1951, Surrey, 2014, no. P1527, p. 4327, illustrated in color

New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann, 85th Anniversary: Paintings of 1964, February - March 1965