AUTUMN SELECTION 2019
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Frank AUERBACH (b.1931) The Tree Opposite, 2008 -2009 Oil on Canvas 52 x 44 ¼ inches / 132 x 112.4 cms Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist Marlborough Fine Art Private Collection, Hong Kong Exhibited: Frank Auerbach Recent Pictures, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 23 September – 24 October 2009, (illus. cat. no. 16)
Ross BLECKNER (b.1949) Untitled, 2013 Oil on linen 60 x 60 inches / 152.4 x 152.4 cms Provenance: Crane Kalman Gallery, London 2013 (acquired directly from the studio of the artist)
Alexander CALDER (1898-1976) Barriere, 1971 Gouache and Ink on paper 30 ¼ x 22 ½ inches / 84.5 x 57.15 cms Signed and dated lower right This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number: A10100 Provenance: Galeries Maeght, Paris Robert Forrest, Milwaukee, 1971 Andras Kalman, London, 1979 Exhibited: Calder Oils, Gouache, Mobiles and Tapestries, Crane Kalman Gallery, March – May 1992, Cat. no 29 Alexander Calder, Crane Kalman Gallery, 24th May - 30th June 2012
Alexander CALDER (1898-1976) Six Dents Rouges, c.1970 Tapestry made for the artist by Pinton Frères, Aubusson in an edition of 6 plus 2 artists proofs, 63 ¾ x 92 ½ inches / 162 x 235 cms Signature woven into lower right
Sir Anthony CARO (1924 – 2013) Table Bronze Double, 1979 Bronze 16 x 26 ½ x 12 inches / 40.6 x 67.3 x 30.5 cms Provenance: Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, London, 1996 (acquired from the above)
Sonia DELAUNAY (1885 – 1979) Projet de Couverture pour l’album No. 1 (1916) Wax Crayon on Paper 9 x 9.5 inches / 23.1 x 24 cms Provenance: Gimpel Fils, London, 1966 (acquired directly from the artist) Private Collection, London, 1966 (acquired directly from the above) Exhibited: “Sonia Delaunay” at Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich from 1st – 30th October 1965, and also at Gimpel Fils Gallery, London from 1st – 26th February 1966, Cat. No. 45
Edmund DE WAAL (b.1964) Aurea, 2007 Two lacquered and lined wooden cabinets containing 29 thrown porcelain vessels in white, yellow and clear glazes with gold leaf Cabinets each 16 ¾ x 16 ¾ x 19 ¼ inches / 42.5 x 42.5 x 48.9 cms Exhibited: Edmund de Waal, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 26th May – 22nd July 2007 and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, 10th August – 11th November 2007 Edmund de Waal, Watershed, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, 21st January – 11th April 2010 Still Lives – Nicholson, Morandi, de Waal, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 20th October – 26th - November 2011
Stanley William HAYTER (1901 – 1988) Bacchantes, 1947 Oil on canvas 49 ½ x 32 inches / 125 x 81.5 cms Signed and dated lower right Provenance: The Estate of the Artist and by descent Exhibited: Stanley William Hayter, ou la Matamorphose des lignes, La Malmaison sur la croisette, Cannes, France, 10th December 2016 – 20th April 2017 Stanley William Hayter, An Exhibition of Paintings, Crane Kalman Gallery, 9th May – 12th June 2018, (Cat. No. 13, Illus in col.) Literature: Hayter: Le Peinture – The Paintings by Pierre-Francois and Francois Albert, published by Gourcuff Gradenigo, Montreuil, 2011,( ill in col. p.88)
Stanley William HAYTER (1901-1988) Échanges, 1966 oil on canvas 57 ½ x 44 ¾ inches / 146 x 114 cms Signed, titled and dated Provenance: Galerie Jean-Clau Riedel, Paris Private Collection, Paris, 1984 (acquired from above) Exhibited: Grosvenor Gallery, London "S.W. Hayter Paintings 1957-1967" 16 Feb - 11 March 1967, (illus. in colour) Chateau-Musée de Dieppe, "William Hayter", 6 July - 15 Sept 1968, (illus. cat no.37) Gallery Santica, Kobe, Japan "S.W. Hayter, Symphonic Poem of Lines" 30 March - 14 April 1985, (illus cat. no. 39) Stanley William Hayter, An Exhibition of Paintings, Crane Kalman Gallery, 9th May – 12th June 2018, (Cat. No. 21, Illus in col.)
Barbara HEPWORTH (1903 – 1975) Sculpture with Colour and String Conceived in 1939 and cast in bronze with string in 1961 in an edition of 9 + Artist’s proof (this cast 3/9) 16.5 x 20.2 x 20.2 cms / 6 ½ x 8 x 8 inches Catalogue Raisonné Reference: BH 113 B Provenance: Private Collection Private Collection, Europe, 1968 Exhibited: Art in Britain 1930 – 40, Marlborough Fine Art, London, March – April 1965, no. 46 Literature: H. Read, Barbara Hepworth Carvings and Drawings, London, 1952, no. 60a (plaster version illustrated) A. Bowness and J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Neuchâtel, 1961, p. 165, no. 113 (plaster version) Art in Britain 1930 – 40, exh. cat., Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1965, p.13, no.46 (illus.) A.M. Hammacher, Modern English Sculpture, London, 1967, p.81 (another cast illus.) A.M. Hammacher, The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, New York, 1968, p.78, no. 55 (another cast illus.)
Patrick HERON (1920 – 1999) Black Painting, November 1961, 1961 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches / 76.2 x 101.7 cms Signed, titled and dated verso Provenance: Private Collection, London
HANS HOFMANN (1880 -1966) Fairytale, 1944 oil on plywood 59.5 x 36 inches / 152.4 x 91.5 cm signed & dated lower right Hans Hofmann / 44 and verso upper right “Fairy Tale – 1944 / oil on board / 60 x 36 / hans hofmann” Hofmann Estate No. M-0108 (Catalogue No. 588-1944, P479) Provenance: The Estate of Hans Hofmann (M-108) Mrs. Renate Hofmann, New York Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Crane Kalman Gallery, London purchased from the above in 1989 Private Collection, London acquired from the above, 1993 Exhibited: Hans Hofmann: Paintings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 26 January – 23 February 1947, travelled to - Texas State College for Women, Denton, Hans Hofmann: Space Paintings, 6 March – 3 April 1947, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 15 – 30 April 1947, Memphis Academy of Arts, TN, May – June 1947. Hans Hofmann, Peintures, Galerie Maeght, Paris, 7 January – 9 February 1949. Paintings by Hans Hofmann, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, 55 October – 21 November 1954, travelled to Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC 28 November – 17 December 1954. A Retrospective Exhibition of the Paintings of Hans Hofmann, Bennington College, VT, 15 – 31 May 1955 Hans Hofmann, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 24 April – 16 June 1957, travelled to Des Moines Art Centre, IA, 4 July – 4 August 1957, San Francisco Museum of Art, 21 August – 22 September 1957, Art Galleries of the University of California at Los Angeles, 6 October – 4 November 1957, Seattle Art Museum, WA, 11 December 1957 – 12 January 1958, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, MN, 7 February – 11 March 1958, MunsonWilliams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 28 March – 30 April 1958, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, 13 May – 17 June 1958. Hans Hofmann: Early Paintings, Kootz Gallery, New York, 20 – 31 January 1959. ill Hans Hofmann, Fränkische Galerie am Marientor, Nuremberg, Germany, 8 April – 6 May 1962, travelled to Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 30 June – 12 July 1962, Kongreßhalle, Berlin, October – November 1962, Städtische Galerie Mü nchen Lenbachpalais, Munich, 7 December 1962 – 13 January 1963. Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 14 October 1976 – 2 January 1977 and travelled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 4 February – 3 April 1977. Hans Hofmann (1880–1966): Paintings and Watercolours/Hans Hofmann: 1888 to 1966, Crane Gallery, London, 13 June – 31 July 1990, travelled to Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, 7 September – 3 November 1990, TransArt Exhibitions Köln, Cologne, Germany, 12 May – 20 June 1992. Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 7 – 30 November 2000 Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Neighbours in a Great Experiment, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, 11th March – 17th April 2010 Hans Hofmann: Pictures of Summer; Paintings and Works on Paper, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, 9 December 2010 – 29 January 2011. Creation in Form and Colour: Hans Hofmann, Kunsthalle Bielefeld from November 5, 2016 - March 5, 2017. It travelled to the Musee national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg September 28, 2017 - January 14, 2018. Literature: Oklahoma’s Daily, 1947, p5 Abstract Painting: Background and American Phase, Hess, Thomas B. New York: Viking Press, 1951, ill.p.134, cat.no 79, comm. P.131 Life, Exhibition review, 1957, ill. p.74 Coates, The New Yorker, 1957, comm. p.106 Pollet, Arts, comm. 1957, P.33 Greenberg, ARTnews, 1959, comm. p.28 Hofmann, Greenberg, Clement. Paris: Éditions Georges Fall, 1961, ill. p.42, comm. p.18 Hunter, Sam. Hans Hofmann (includes artist’s statements). With reprints of essays by Hofmann: “Plastic Creation” (1932), pp. 35–38; “The Search for the Real in the Visual Arts” (1948), pp. 39–43; “The Resurrection of the Plastic Arts” and “The Mystery of Creative Relations” (1954), pp. 44–45; “The Color Problem in Pure Painting—Its Creative Origin” (1955), pp. 46–48; “Sculpture” (1933), pp. 49–51. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1963, colour ill. pl. 9, comm. p.22 The Credibility of Colour: Hans Hofmann, an Area of Optimism (includes artist’s statements). Kootz, Samuel M. Arts Magazine 41, no. 4 (February 1967): pp. 37–39. comm. p.37 Dada and Surrealist Art, Rubin, published by Thames & Hudson,1968, ill. p.447, fig. no. D-252, comm. p.366 American Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Hunter, Sam. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973, ill. p.225, pl.465 Millard, The Hudson Review, comm. pp.405 – 06 Lucie-Smith, Edward, Sam Hunter, and Adolf Max Vogt. Kunst der Gegenwart (text in German). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Propyläen Verlag, 1978, ill. n.p., pl. 152a, comm. P.177, as Märchen American Art: painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography, Brown et al., ill. p. 492, pl. 527, comm. p.491 The Spectacular Fall and Rise of Hans Hofmann, Kinkead, Gwen. ARTnews 79, no. 6 (Summer 1980): pp. 88–96. comm. p96 Abstract Expressionist Painting in America (includes artist’s statements), Seitz, William C. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, ill. fig. no. 115 Hans Hofmann, Goodman, solo exhibition catalogue, not in exhibition, 1990, comm. p.126 James, Burlington Magazine, 1990, ill. p. 593, fig. no. 45, comm. p.593 Jeffett, Apollo, 1990, comm. p.55 The Art Book, Butler, Adam, Claire Van Cleave, and Susan Stirling, London: Phaidon, 1994, colour ill. p.223 Hans Hofmann (includes artist’s statements), Yohe, James, ed. Introduction by Sam Hunter; essays by Tina Dickey and Frank Stella. Reprints of essays by Hofmann: “Plastic Creation” (1932), pp. 41–44; “The Search for the Real in the Visual Arts” (1948), pp. 45–48; “The Resurrection of the Plastic Arts” and “The Mystery of Creative Relations” (1954), pp. 21–23; “The Color Problem in Pure Painting—Its Creative Origin (1955), pp. 51–53; “Sculpture” (1933), pp. 54–56. New York: Rizzoli, 2002, colour ill. pp.25, 100, comm. pp.24,25 Goodrich, City Arts, 2010, comm. p.10 Creation in Form and Colour: Hans Hofmann, Lucinda Barnes, Curator Emeritas The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific FIlm Archives, Edited by Fredrich Meschede, Jutta Hü lsewig-Johnen, Henrike Mund, Kunsthalle Bielefeld. 2017, ill. in colour, p.36
HANS HOFMANN (1880 -1966) Simultan, 1953 Oil on panel, 35 x 29 ½ inches / 88.9 x 74.9 cms Signed and dated lower right Initialed verso Catalogue Raisonné reference: P913 HH Catalogue Number: HH469 Hans Hofmann Estate Number: M-1016 Provenance: Estate of the artist André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1971 Private Collection, 1971 ACA Gallery, New York Collection Maureen and Marshall Cogan, New York, 1984 André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1988 Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1989 Private Collection, London, 1993 (acquired from above) Exhibited: Hans Hofmann (1880–1966): Paintings and Watercolours/Hans Hofmann: 1888 to 1966, Crane Gallery, London, 13 June – 31 July 1990, travelled to Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, 7 September – 3 November 1990, TransArt Exhibitions Köln, Cologne, Germany, 12 May – 20 June 1992. Literature: Jeffett, Apollo, 1990, comm. p.56
Fernand LÉGER (1880 – 1955) Le Coquillage, 1927 Oil on Canvas 25.5 x 18 inches / 65 x 46 cms Signed and dated “F. LÉGER 27” bottom right Signed, dated and titled verso Provenance: Galerie Simon, Paris Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin Private Collection Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, Geneva, 1998 (acquired from the above) Literature: Fernand Leger Catalogue Raisonné du L’oeuvre Peint 1925 – 1928, by Georges Bauquier, Vol. No. 3, Published by Adrian Maeght Editeur, 1993, Cat. No. 486, Pg 166
L. S. LOWRY RA (1887 – 1976) Interior with group of figures, c.1923 Pencil on paper 14 ½ x 9 5/8 inches / 36.7 x 24.3 cms Provenance: The Estate of the Artist
L S LOWRY (1887 – 1976) Stockport Viaduct, 1944 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches / 61 x 50.8 cms Signed and dated lower left Provenance: Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, London, 1968 (purchased from the above) Exhibited: L.S. Lowry, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 30th November 1966 – 7th January 1967, ill in cat no. 12, pl. XVI L. S. Lowry, R.A., (1887-1976), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 4 September - 14 November, 1976, (p.72 cat. no. 156) Literature: Lowrys City, A Painter and his Locale, Judith Sandling and Mike Leber, Lowry Press, 2000, p.98 and front cover
Ben NICHOLSON (1894–1982) 1923 (vineyard in winter), 1923 Oil on canvas 22 ¼ x 24 ½ inches / 56.5 x 62 cm faint inscription on canvas overlap ‘Viney[ard] Benjamin Nicholson / [1923]’ Provenance: Lord Carlisle (gift from the artist) Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, Switzerland Exhibited: The Nicholsons, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 15th June–30th July 1983, catalogue no.8 (repro. in colour p.13) Ben Nicholson, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 11th April – 11th May 2019
Winifred NICHOLSON (1893 – 1981) Leopards Bain and Iris, 1928 Oil on Board 30 ¼ x 24 ½ inches / 76.8 x 62.2 cms Provenance: The Leicester Galleries Private Collection, Scotland Crane Kalman Gallery Private Collection, Paris, 1996 Exhibited: The 1937 International Exhibition of Paintings, 14th October – 5th December 1937, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, no.162 Ben Nicholson and His Two Wives, Crane Kalman Gallery, 1998
Henry MOORE (1898 – 1986) Draped Reclining Figures, 1948 pencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink, gouache paper 12 x 9.5 inches / 31 x 24 cms Signed lower right Henry Moore Foundation Reference: HMF 2475 Provenance: Private Collection, UK
Theodoros STAMOS (1922 – 1997) Low White Sun, 1962 Acrylic on cotton 56 x 52 inches / 142 x 132 cms Provenance: Ericson Gallery, New York Matthew Scott Fine Art, Los Angeles Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, Surrey Exhibited: Theodoros Stamos, Works from 1945 – 1984, June – August 1984, Galerie Knoedler, Zurich Theodoros Stamos, May – June 2005, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, ill. front cover