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EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)
Coast Guard Cove
signed and inscribed 'Edward Hopper Two Lights Me' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1929
Provenance
Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York (1929).
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Davis, New York (1931).
Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York (1975).
Dr. and Mrs. Howard A. Ted Bailey, Jr., Little Rock, Arkansas.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Paul and Rachel Mellon, New York (acquired from the above, 1983); Estate sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 10 November 2014, lot 2.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner
Literature
Record Book I, p. 70.
G. Levin, Edward Hopper A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, vol. II, p. 202, no. W-233 (illustrated in color).
G. Levin, The Complete Watercolors of Edward Hopper New York, 2001, p. 202, no. W-233 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, November-December 1933, p. 29, no. 45.
Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Edward Hopper January 1934, no. 31.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Fine American Paintings, 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, December 1975-January 1976, no. 18.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., The American Tradition of Realism Part II: Paintings and Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, April-May 1983, no. 41 (illustrated in color).
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