Sailing (painting)
| Sailing |
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| Edward Hopper , 1911 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 61 × 74 cm |
| Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Link to the picture |
Sailing ( German sailing ) is a painting by the American painter Edward Hopper (1882–1967) from 1911. The work, executed in oil on canvas with dimensions 61 × 74 cm, is in the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh .
As a motif, Hopper chose a small sailboat under full sail close to the wind . In 1980 an X-ray examination showed that an earlier self-portrait of the artist was hidden under the layer of paint.
Hopper showed the work together with his four oil paintings British Steamer , The Wine Shop , Valley of the Seine and River Boat as part of an exhibition at the MacDowell Club in New York from February 22 to March 5, 1912. After that, it was in 1913 in at the Armory Show in New York City and purchased from Manhattan textile manufacturer Thomas F. Vietor for $ 250. It was Hopper's first painting to be sold.
Web links
- Image by Edward Hoppers Sailing at www.museumsyndicate.com
Literature on the work, sources
- Gail Levin: The Complete Oil Paintings of Edward Hopper , WW Norton, London 2001, ISBN 0-393-04996-5 .
- Gail Levin: Edward Hopper - An intimate portrait , List, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-471-78062-9 .