Edward Hopper (after) - Automat - Giclée - Licensed print - 2016 - COA

Giclée print of Edward Hopper (*)
Reproduction of the work “Automat”, created by Hopper in 1961
Luxurious edition on high-grade matte conservation digital paper (250 g/m²) manufactured in Germany with acid- and chlorine-free wood pulp.
Authorized Print, Published by McGawGraphics, Inc. USA.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

- Sheet dimensions: 51 x 61 cm
- Image dimensions: 41 x 51 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, so it is offered in immaculate condition).

The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be traceable with a tracking number (UPS DPD DHL FedEx)

The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the artwork with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Giclée is a term referring to a type of high-quality fine art printing, digitally created with inkjet printers. This process uses pigment-based inks and specialized papers to achieve great sharpness, color accuracy, and durability, ideal for reproductions of art and photographs.

(**) The American painter Edward Hopper was one of the leading representatives of 20th-century realism. Although for much of his life his pictorial work did not receive critical or public attention and he was forced to work as an illustrator to subsist, today his works have become icons of modern life and society.
He studied at the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. He made several trips to Europe, and from early on he was interested in European culture and art, especially the works of Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. From 1910 he resided permanently in New York, in his Washington Square house, which he only left during his summer stays in New England, since 1930 always in Cape Cod, where he built a house. In 1924 he married Jo Nivison, who not only posed for him on numerous occasions, but who throughout his life prepared a detailed record of his work. His artistic production is relatively small, as he was a painter of slow and deliberate execution. At first he was associated with the so-called American Scene, a heterogeneous group of artists who shared a common interest in American themes, but Hopper soon developed his own pictorial style. His taciturn character and austere forms had a strong reflection in his work, which as a whole is characterized by the simplified representation of reality and by the perfect capture of the loneliness of the contemporary man. Through his painting we approach the America of the Great Depression, which for him symbolized the crisis of modern life.
The cinematic treatment of scenes and the personal use of light are the main elements that differentiate his painting. Although he painted some landscapes and outdoor scenes, most of his pictorial subjects depict public places, such as bars, motels, hotels, stations, trains, all of them virtually empty to emphasize the loneliness of the depicted figure. On the other hand, Hopper accentuates the dramatic effect through strong contrasts of light and shadow.
By around 1930, as a result of isolationism, his fame increased considerably, although his critical fortune began to grow truly after his death, in 1967, when he began to be recognized as one of the great masters of 20th-century art and not only as an example of American realist painting.