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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1970.56
People
Hans Hofmann, American (Weissenberg (Bavaria), Germany 1880 - 1966 New York, NY)
Title
Blue Rhapsody
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1963
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227861

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
214.3 x 199.1 cm (84 3/8 x 78 3/8 in.)
framed: 215.9 x 200.7 cm (85 x 79 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Hans Hoffmann 1963

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hans Hofmann; to Rosenman, Colin, Kaye, Petschek, Freund and Emil, New York New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1970.

NOTE: Per letter from the donor in the curatorial file the painting was received by the firm in exchange for legal services.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Rosenman, Colin, Kaye, Petschek, Freund and Emil
Copyright
© Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1970
Object Number
1970.56
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Chapin Seitz, Hans Hofmann, with Selected Writings by the Artist, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (Garden City, NY, 1963), p. 36
  • Acquisitions, 1969-1970, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), ill. p. 158
  • "Important New Acquisition for the Fogg", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, January 1971), vol. VIII, no. 2, ill. p.
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 96, fig. 92
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), p. 208, cat. 238, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Hans Hofmann, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 09/11/1963 - 11/28/1963
  • New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000

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