Edward Hopper (after) - Rooms by the sea - Offset lithograph - Licensed print - 2021

Edward Hopper Offset Lithography (*)
Reproduction of the work “Rooms by the Sea,” oil on canvas created by Hopper in 1951.
Edition on glossy graphic paper (250 g/m²)
Authorized Print, Published by McGawGraphics, Inc. USA

- Sheet dimensions: 28 x 36 cm
- Image dimensions: 20 x 28 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and is offered in immaculate condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number (UPS DPD DHL FedEx)

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

(*) The American painter Edward Hopper was one of the leading representatives of 20th-century realism. Although for most 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 took an interest in European culture and art, especially the works of Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. From 1910 he lived 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 also kept a detailed record of his work throughout her life. His artistic production is relatively small, as he was a painter of slow, deliberate execution. At first he related to the so-called American Scene, a heterogeneous group of artists sharing an interest in American themes, but Hopper soon developed his own pictorial style. His taciturn character and austere forms had a strong influence on his work, which is characterized as a whole by a simplified representation of reality and by a perfect capture of the solitude 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 his distinctive use of light are the main differentiating elements of his painting. Although he painted some landscapes and outdoor scenes, most of his pictorial themes depict public places such as bars, motels, hotels, stations, trains, all of which are practically empty to emphasize the solitude of the portrayed figure. Moreover, Hopper heightens the dramatic effect through strong contrasts of light and shadow.

By the 1930s, 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.