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

Offset lithography of Edward Hopper (*)
Reproduction of the work “Rooms by the sea”, oil on canvas created by Hopper in 1951.
Edition on textured graphic paper (250 g/m²)
Authorized printing, published by McGawGraphics, Inc. USA

- Dimensions of the sheet: 28 x 36 cm
- Dimensions of the subject: 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 artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked (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 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 very early on he became 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; from 1930 he was 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 also kept a detailed record of his work throughout her life. His artistic output is relatively scarce, as he was a painter of slow and deliberate execution. At first he associated with American Scene, a heterogeneous group of artists who shared a common interest in American subjects, 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 modern man. Through his painting we approach the America of the Great Depression, which to him symbolized the crisis of modern life.
The cinematic treatment of scenes and his 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 depicted figure. Furthermore, 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 rise 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.