Sep 19, 2024 - Sale 2678

Sale 2678 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)
Liz.

Color crayons, black chalk and pencil on stiff wove paper, 1900. 161x95 mm; 6½x3¾ inches. Signed and dated in green crayon, lower right, and titled in pencil, lower center.

Provenance
Estate of the artist, New York.
Josephine N. Hopper, New York.
Reverend and Mrs. Arthayer R. Sanborn, Nyack.
Alexander Gallery, New York.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York (label).
Private collection, Pennsylvania.

Additional Details

Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper, who bears a strong resemblance to the sitter in this portrait, was the artist's mother and the subject of several of his paintings, notably Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper, The Artist's Mother, oil on canvas, circa 1915-16, in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Josephine N. Hopper Bequest).