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

Edward Hopper Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the painting “Rooms by the Sea”, oil on canvas created by Hopper in 1951.
Edition on coated art 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 packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be sent with a tracking number (UPS DPD DHL FedEx)

The shipment will also include transportation 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 much of his life his pictorial work did not receive much attention from critics or the public and he was obliged 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 showed an interest 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; 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 also maintained throughout her life a detailed record of his work. His artistic output 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 sharing an interest in American themes, but Hopper soon developed his own personal painting style. His taciturn nature and austere forms had a strong influence on his work, which as a whole is characterized by a simplified representation of reality and by the perfect capture of the loneliness of the modern man. Through his painting we glimpse 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 subjects depict public places such as bars, motels, hotels, stations, trains, all of them almost empty to emphasize the loneliness of the depicted figure. Moreover, Hopper heightens the dramatic effect through strong contrasts of light and shadow.
Around 1930, as a result of isolationism, his fame increased considerably, though 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.