view from Winchester Ct. / Spring St. stairs in 1928
The first sale was by Rehn Gallery to Edward and Grace (Cogswell) Root in 1929. They built a major modern collection.
Lot 138 Sold for $1,980,000 (plus fees)
Presale estimate was 1.2 – 1.8 million
EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)
Gloucester Roofs, 1928
signed ‘Edward Hopper/Gloucester’ (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
Provenance
- Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York (1928).
- Edward Wales Root, Clinton, New York (acquired from Rehn Galleries, 1929)
- Mrs. and Mrs. Wilson H. and Mary D. Kierstead, New York and London (after 1962)
- Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (1981). Sold to Mr. and Mrs. James A. and Edith Hall Fisher, Pittsburgh
- Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York — sold to Paul Allen, in 2016
The price realized for a second drawing, Lily Apartments, by Edward Hopper, Lot 153, was $1,620,000
The sixty lots included in the Paul Allen Part 1 sale last evening totaled 1.6+ billion. Paul Allen cofounded Microsoft in 1975. He died in 2018. Proceeds were raised for undisclosed charitable entities.
Good Morning Gloucester 