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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 22, 2014 | Christie's | New York | American Art | 15 | $****** - ****** | Coast Guard Boat I |
Works on Paper
35.6 x 50.8 cm (14.02 x 20 in)
watercolor and pencil on paper
signed 'Edward Hopper/Two Lights Me' (lower right)
The artist. [With]Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York. Robert W. Huntington, Hartford, Connecticut, 1929.
By descent to the present owner.
Norwich, Connecticut, Slater Memorial Museum, Trends in Twentieth Century Painting, April 11-26, 1932, no. 20 (as The Boat). New York, Museum of Modern Art, Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition, November 1-December 7, 1933, no. 51. Chicago, Illinois, Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Edward Hopper, January 2-16, 1934, no. 39. Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, American Painting and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th & 20th Centuries, January 29-February 19, 1935, no. 67 (as Lifeboat). Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Paintings in Hartford Collections, January 21-February 23, 1936, no. 80 (as The Coast Guard). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper, March 11-April 25, 1937, no. 61. Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Eighteenth International Exhibition: Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes, March 23-May 14, 1939, no. 322. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Thirty-ninth Annual Philadelphia Water Color and Print Exhibition, and the Fortieth Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, November 2-December 7, 1941, no. 401. Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Seven by Six--Loan Exhibition of Contemporary American Water Colors, October 27-November 28, 1948, no. 32. Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Survey of American Watercolors, August 6-September 28, 1952, no. 76. Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art, Watercolors by Edward Hopper With a Selection of His Etchings, October 8-November 15, 1959, no. 20 (as Coast Guard Boat, Cape Elizabeth).
Artist's ledger: Book I, 1913-63, p. 70. Slater Memorial Museum, Trends in Twentieth Century Painting, exhibition checklist, Norwich, Connecticut, 1932, no. 20 (as The Boat). A.H. Barr, Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1933, n.p., no. 51. Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Edward Hopper, exhibition checklist, Chicago, Illinois, 1934, no. 39. Wadsworth Atheneum, American Painting and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th & 20th Centuries, exhibition checklist, Hartford, Connecticut, 1935, no. 67 (as Lifeboat). Wadsworth Atheneum, Paintings in Hartford Collections, exhibition checklist, Hartford, Connecticut, 1936, no. 80 (as The Coast Guard). Carnegie Institute, An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper, exhibition checklist, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1937, no. 61. The Art Institute of Chicago, The Eighteenth International Exhibition: Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes, exhibition checklist, Chicago, Illinois, 1939, no. 322. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Thirty-ninth Annual Philadelphia Water Color and Print Exhibition, and the Fortieth Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, exhibition checklist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1941, no. 401. Wadsworth Atheneum, Seven by Six--Loan Exhibition of Contemporary American Water Colors, exhibition catalogue, Hartford, Connecticut, 1948, n.p., no. 32. Wadsworth Atheneum, Survey of American Watercolors, exhibition catalogue, Hartford, Connecticut, 1952, p. 7, no. 76. The Currier Gallery of Art, Watercolors by Edward Hopper with a Selection of His Etchings, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1959, no. 20 (as Coast Guard Boat, Cape Elizabeth). G. Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New York, 1995, p. 198, no. W-229, illustrated. G. Levin, The Complete Watercolors by Edward Hopper, New York, 2001, p. 198, fig. W-229, illustrated.
