HANS HOFMANN Composition in Blue . Color screenprint, 1952. 433x360 mm; 17 1/8x14 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed in ink, lower right and numbered 55/120 in pencil, lower left. Published by Esther Gentle New York. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early print with strong colors. According to Williams, Hofmann was pursuaded to make this print by Esther Gentle (who later married Abraham Rattner , his student at the time, who was starting to publish screenprints reproducing well-known artists' paintings (Reba and Dave Williams, American Screenprints , New York, 1987, page 32). Unlike other screenprints by Abstract Expressionist artists, Hofmann's is an original work which does not reproduce a painting. An unusual feature of Composition in Blue is that the blue background varies; the artist authorized different color mixtures and strengths for the printing of this particular screen (Williams, page 32).
HANS HOFMANN Composition in Blue . Color screenprint, 1952. 433x360 mm; 17 1/8x14 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed in ink, lower right and numbered 55/120 in pencil, lower left. Published by Esther Gentle New York. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early print with strong colors. According to Williams, Hofmann was pursuaded to make this print by Esther Gentle (who later married Abraham Rattner , his student at the time, who was starting to publish screenprints reproducing well-known artists' paintings (Reba and Dave Williams, American Screenprints , New York, 1987, page 32). Unlike other screenprints by Abstract Expressionist artists, Hofmann's is an original work which does not reproduce a painting. An unusual feature of Composition in Blue is that the blue background varies; the artist authorized different color mixtures and strengths for the printing of this particular screen (Williams, page 32).
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