Sale 2460 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 2, 2017

305  EDWARD HOPPER Night Shadows . Etching on creamwove paper, 1921. 175x210 mm; 7x8 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 500. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by The NewRepublic, New York. A brilliant, luminous, richly-inked impression of this important etching, with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Night Shadows is a particularly iconic image, epitomizing Hopper’s propensity for con­ veying isolation and stillness through the use of heavy chiaroscuro and strong, dark hatching throughout. He used a bird’s-eye vantage point with extended shadows and darkness to intensify the suspense and drama. The artist depicted this same street corner in a painting from 1913, Corner Saloon , now in The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Unlike Hopper’s other prints, which he printed himself on his personal press in very small editions, this is the only etching that was printed commercially, for The NewRepublic, New York, and published in a limited edition portfolio for their December 1924 issue. Levin 82. [25,000/35,000]