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

Edward Hopper Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “Rooms by the Sea,” oil on canvas created by Hopper in 1951.
Edition on laid 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 pristine condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be traceable 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 throughout 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 undertook 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 home, which he only left during his summer stays in New England; from 1930 he always lived 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, since he was a painter of slow, deliberate execution. In his early career he allied himself with American Scene, a heterogeneous group of artists sharing an interest in American subject matter, but Hopper soon developed his own pictorial style. His taciturn character and austere forms had a strong influence on his work, which is characterized overall by a simplified representation of reality and by a perfect capturing 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 the personal use of light are the main differentiating elements of 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 almost empty to underscore the solitude of the portrayed figure. Moreover, Hopper intensifies the dramatic effect through strong contrasts of light and shadow.
Around 1930, as a result of isolationism, his fame increased considerably, although his critical fortune began to truly grow 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.