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Fine Art and Antiques

Sun, Sep 22, 2024 01:00PM EDT
Lot 257

Irwin D. Hoffman (1901-1989) Pastorial, Puerto Rico, 1938

Estimate: $100 - $150

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$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
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$50,000 $5,000

Etching, signed and titled; 9" x 11 3/4".

Irwin Hoffman was born in East Boston to Russian immigrant parents. He enrolled as a special student at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School at the age of 15, on a full scholarship. He had his first solo show with the Grace Horne Galleries at age 19, and was referred to as a "prodigy in portraiture".  He traveled and painted in Europe, with good friends Aiden Lassell Ripley and Carl Gordon Cutler, then returned to establish himself in NYC. Hoffman's brothers owned a mining company that prospected in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

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