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HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)
Lot 515

HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)

Composition No. 15

Closed13 May 2022

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USD 151,200

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HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)
Composition No. 15
signed and dated ’53 hans hofmann’ (lower right); signed again, titled, inscribed and dated again 'Composition No. 15⁄53 (Teecatle) [sic] hans hofmann' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
30 x 38 in. (76.2 x 96.5 cm.)
Painted in 1953.

Estate of the artist
Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust, 1996
Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, 2007
Charles O. Wood III, Boston
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018

Specialist note

"At all stages of the creative development, both color and form develop, one through the other into a reciprocal compensatory relationship comparable to harmony and counterpoint in music. The magic of painting, however, can never be fully, rationally explained" (H. Hofmann quoted in K. Wilkin, "The color problem in pure painting--its creative origin," Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective, New York, 1979, p. 40).