Edward Hopper and George Bellows at Sotheby’s Automatic translate

The symbolic works of two artists, Edward Hopper and George Bellows, are expected to be the main primaries of Sotheby’s American art auction, which will take place next month, as announced this week.

Edward Hopper - On the waves of the surf

“On the waves of the surf”, the oil painting created in 1939 was the first painting by Edward Hopper, which appeared at an auction in 2006, when it was sold for a record amount for the artist “Hotel by the Road”. At the auction on May 17 in New York, the current lot, according to preliminary estimates, could go for $ 7 million (about 5.3 million euros).

““ The kid is on the move, ”a very unusual style for Hopper’s work, which is primarily famous for the photographic nature of his works, but the feeling of secrecy is still pure Hopper,” Sothebys said in a statement on the sale.

It is also expected that Tennis in Newport, which is part of a series of four sports works created in 1919 and 1920, will also succeed at an auction with a starting price of 5-7 million. Two other works on the same subject are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Another painting at the auction is "In the Sun" by Child Hassam, who was kidnapped from a house in Massachusetts in 1976. The canvas has been restored for several decades and, according to preliminary estimates, can bring up to $ 2.5 million, as well as “View from New Windsor, the Hudson River,” by David Johnson, which was painted between 1867 and 1870.

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