Hans Hofmann, Quartet, 1949

Oil on canvas

50 x 50 inches

Signed and dated lower right

Sold

The Ginny Williams Collection

Estate of the artist

André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1984)

Sally Sirkin Lewis Interior Design, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1984)

Private Collection

Christie’s, New York, 17 May 2001, Lot 105

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Urbana, University of Illinois, Smith Music Hall, Music in Art, February - April 1950

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Hans Hoffman: The Years 1947 - 1952, April 1976, illustrated in color

Robert Motherwell and Ad Reinhardt, Eds., Modern Artists in America, First Series, New York 1952, p. 53, illustrated

Irving Sandler, "Hans Hofmann and the Challenge of Synthetic Cubism," Arts Magazine, Vol. 50, No. 8, April 1976, p. 103, illustrated

William Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, Cambridge 1983, fig. 127, illustrated

Suzi Villiger, Ed., Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume II: 1901-1951, Surrey 2014, cat. no. P701, p. 426, illustrated in color

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