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Artist
Hans Hofmann (Primary)
Title

Untitled

Date
1948
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Gouache on gray paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 x 14 in.
Style
Abstraction
Object Type
Paintings
Credit Line
Partial gift of Patricia Poteat & David Moltke-Hansen and Museum purchase with additional funds provided by Ray Griffin & Thom Robinson
Accession Number
2010.36.02.23
Copyright
In Copyright
© The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Description

Nonobjective, biomorphic painting with reds, blues, browns and yellows.

Label History

At Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century exhibition in 1944 in New York City, German-born Hofmann, a new American citizen, garnered positive attention for his pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism. This painting reflects what a hostile critic in 1946 called the artist’s “spatter-and-daub” free-form approach. It also shows his penchant for bright colors. He was already introducing elements of geometry to his painting, which would increase in his later years. The year 1948 saw the publication of Hofmann’s influential Search for the Real and Other Essays. He ran an important art school in New York City and Provincetown, MA, contemporaneously with Black Mountain College, many of whose faculty were friends and shared aesthetic and philosophical concerns

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: David Moltke-Hansen, PhD

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