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Hans Hofmann
Flight1952

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Abstract oil painting with a large orange animal-like form at center, surrounded by blue, green, yellow, and black gestural brushstrokes
Artist or Maker
Hans Hofmann
Germany, active United States, 1880-1966
Title
Flight
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1952
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Vicci Sperry through the Contemporary Art Council
Accession Number
M.64.9.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1880-1966); [Kootz Gallery, New York]; sold to Vicci (1900-1995) and Albert F. Sperry, Los Angeles; given in 1964 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography

  • Tuchman, Maurice, editor. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965.

  • Tuchman, Maurice. Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions: Inaugurating The New Contemporary Art Galleries. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
  • Villiger, Suzi, ed. Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. Vol. 3, Catalogue Entries P847-PW89 (1952-1965). Surrey, UK: Lund Humphries, 2014.
Copyright
© Estate of Hans Hofmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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