EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ‘EDWARD HOPPER’ SIGNED BY THE RECLUSIVE ARTIST BELOW ONE OF HIS ICONIC IMAGES
HOPPER EDWARD: (1882-1967) American Painter whose most famous work, Nighthawks, depicting patrons in a light-bathed diner at night, takes a place among the most familiar images in American art. Book signed and inscribed, “To Miss Harington, from Edward Hopper” being a hardback edition of Edward Hopper, First Edition published by the American Artists Group as their Monograph Number 8, New York, 1945. With many monochrome reproductions of Hopper’s paintings, including Night-Hawks. Signed and inscribed by Hopper in blue fountain pen ink to the colour printed front pastedown which features a reproduction of The Martha McKeen of Wellfleet. Bound in paper covered boards with a cloth backing.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is generally considered the foremost realist painter of 20th-century America. Though Hopper also worked in etching and watercolor, he is best known for his oil paintings, which often convey a sense of melancholy or isolation. Hopper’s work, spanning oil paintings, watercolors, and etchings, predominantly explores themes of loneliness and isolation within American urban and rural settings. His most famous painting, “Nighthawks” (1942), epitomizes his interest in the quiet, introspective moments of everyday life. Chop Suey (1929), an oil painting on canvas by Hopper which portrays two women in conversation at a restaurant sold in 2018 for $92 million, a record price for the artist’s work.
