Gaston Hoffmann Art
Gaston Hoffmann (French, 1883-1960) worked as a painter, decorator, cartoonist, and illustrator in France and Quebec throughout the first half of the 20th century. He examined contemporary events and subjects in his work as well as explored the limits of his imagination. Hoffmann is known for his theatrical paintings as well as his satirical prints. Hoffmann was born in Paris and was educated there at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. After the war he worked between 1918 and 1921 together with his friend Charles Schneider, for whose glass factory he decorated vases with delicate plant, flower and animal motifs inspired by the Art Nouveau style. At the time, he also worked for the Sèvres porcelain factory, designed posters and painted two large murals in Quebec, teaching at the academy there between 1924 and 1926. He painted narrative genre scenes, often with a humorous undertone, but also representations of wonderful underwater worlds populated by nereids and strange creatures. He translated themes from literature, poetry and the Bible into performances full of emotion and deals with themes that, surprisingly, are still topical. He wrote educational books for elementary school art, created cartoons, murals, painted altarpieces, illustrated books, and caricatures, for example, of the pompous French judiciary. Hoffmann died in Metz in 1977, aged 95.
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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Mid-20th Century Realist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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Mid-20th Century Realist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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20th Century Other Art Style Gaston Hoffmann Art
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1930s French Vintage Gaston Hoffmann Art
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1950s Realist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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The Master Smith. 1895. Lithograph. Way 84; Levy 123; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 120.i/ii. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 (sheet 76 x 5 3/8). Only 15 lifetime impressions (in 2 states) were listed by Way; Goulding printed 38 impressions on 14 December 1903. The stone was erased in 1903. Printed on cream wove proofing paper. Monogrammed with the butterfly in the stone. A fine impression of this extremely rare lithograph.
Tedeschi, Stratis, and Spink write, page 366: As originally transferred to stone, the image includes trial marks made with a pointed crayon to the left of the sitter's shoulder. There is also a smudge at lower right below the image and a small stry mark upper right. Only one impression of this state has been located. Now in the Britigh Museum, London, it once belonged to Thomas Way and is illustrated in the Levy (1975) catalogue.' The impression illustrated above lacks the stray mark on the right, as the sheet is too small to accommodate it.
Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink write, page 366: 'This portrait of George Govier, was drawn ad the master smith conversed with the artist during a break from his work. Govier was born in Lyme Regis...
Late 19th Century Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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1970s Contemporary Gaston Hoffmann Art
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1960s Gaston Hoffmann Art
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Mid-19th Century Antique Gaston Hoffmann Art
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Early 20th Century French French Provincial Gaston Hoffmann Art
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1960s Surrealist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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2010s Realist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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1970s American Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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2010s Realist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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1970s American Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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2010s Gaston Hoffmann Art
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1910s Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Art
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