HANS HOFMANN Composition in Blue . Color screenprint on illustration board, 1952. 433x360 mm; 17 1/8x14 1/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed and numbered 31/120 in ink, lower margin. Published by Esther Gentle New York, with the ink stamps lower right recto. A very good impression of this scarce, early print with strong colors. According to Williams, Hofman was "pursuaded to make this print by Esther Gentle (later Mrs. 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, p. 32). Though 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, p. 32).
HANS HOFMANN Composition in Blue . Color screenprint on illustration board, 1952. 433x360 mm; 17 1/8x14 1/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed and numbered 31/120 in ink, lower margin. Published by Esther Gentle New York, with the ink stamps lower right recto. A very good impression of this scarce, early print with strong colors. According to Williams, Hofman was "pursuaded to make this print by Esther Gentle (later Mrs. 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, p. 32). Though 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, p. 32).
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