Live Auction 20097Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)
Lot 238

HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)

Flowers of the Mind

Closed12 November 2021

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USD 810,000

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HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)
Flowers of the Mind
signed and dated 'Hans Hofmann 65' (lower right); signed again, titled, dedicated and dated again 'to Dr. Paul Lambert Schmitz- hans & Renate Flowers of the mind 1965' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1965.

Dr. Paul Lambert Schmitz, Germany, gift of the artist, 1965
Estate of the artist, 1973
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Donald M. Feuerstein, New York, 1982
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Marc Sanders, Princeton, New Jersey
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 18 November 1992, lot 3
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998

Specialist note

“Hofmann, now working at the peak of production few younger artists could sustain, is one of our major masters. He is a symbol of both the international origins of American painting and its subsequent world influence. It is a sign of greatness, in the career of an artist, when his personal development cannot be separated from that of his epoch; such is the case with Hofmann” (W. Seitz, Hans Hofmann, exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1963, p. 7).