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 coated graphic paper (250 g/m²)
Authorized Print, Published by McGawGraphics, Inc. USA

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

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

The shipment will also include transit 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 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 an early age he was interested in European culture and art, especially the works of Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. Since 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 a detailed record of his work throughout his life. His artistic production is relatively small, as he was a painter of slow and deliberate execution. Initially he was associated with the so-called American Scene, a heterogeneous group of artists who shared an interest in themes related to America, but Hopper soon developed his own pictorial style. His taciturn character and austere forms had a strong reflection in his work, which is characterized overall by the simplified representation of reality and the perfect capture of the loneliness of the modern man. Through his painting we gain access to American life during the Great Depression, which for him symbolized the crisis of modern life.
The cinematic treatment of scenes and his personal use of light are the main distinguishing 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 underline the loneliness of the portrayed figure. On the other hand, Hopper intensifies the dramatic effect through strong contrasts of light and shadow.
Around 1930, as a result of isolationism, his fame increased considerably, although 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.