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Pre order Cape Ann Museum’s Edward Hopper catalog For Sale #GloucesterMA

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CAM catalog for sale!

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Pre-Sale Catalog Special Offer: Pre-order your Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape catalog in anticipation of this special exhihibition. Shipping of the catalog will begin on the official release, May 2nd.

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Cape Ann Museum Hopper banners on (L) CAM Pleasant St., and (R) CAM Green, view from Rt. 128

Sold tonight! Edward Hopper Gloucester Roofs Fetched 1.98 million at Christie’s Auction Paul G Allen Collection Part 2

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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.