“The most beautiful pastel ever seen” by Stephan Koja

Viewing Hopper’s work through this new lens, the pieces in this volume challenge traditional interpretations of the work of this American master. Although the paintings were created almost three hundred years apart and in different locations and cultural settings, they reveal intriguing similarities that go beyond resonant compositional aspects. Both artists depicted figures in scenes of solitude that allow the viewer a glimpse into the subject’s inner life, such as in Hopper’s Morning Sun, 1952, and Vermeer’s newly restored Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. The Most Beautiful Pastel Ever Seen by Koja, Stephan Enke, Roland ISBN13: 9783777431369 ISBN10: 3777431362 Format:Hardcover Copyright: Publisher:Hirmer Verlag More Book Details Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases. This publication offers a fresh look at Hopper’s oeuvre and analyzes it in dialogue with works by the Old Masters.Ĭentral to this catalog are points of intersection between the works of Hopper and those of artists such as Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675). Through his scenes of everyday life, he opened a window into his own emotions and thoughts. This catalogue brings together texts by renowned scholars as they explore not only the restoration of this pivotal work but also fundamental questions on the visual vernacular and essence of Vermeer's painting, his optical realism, his iconography of love, and the lived realities of women in the Dutch Golden Age.Edward Hopper and the Old Masters-a new look at the American artist.Įdward Hopper (1882–1967) is one of the most renowned American artists of the twentieth century, known for his distinctive renderings of urban life. To showcase the discovery, the Dresden Gemaldegalerie is now presenting the Girl Reading a Letter along with other masterpieces by Vermeer and a selection of exceptional Dutch genre paintings that reveal parallels and reciprocities between the art of Vermeer and that of his peers. The removal of a large section of overpainting dating from a later period has profoundly altered the work's appearance and revealed the original composition.

Preserved at the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, the painting has been restored, in an elaborate process lasting from 2017 to 2021.

The Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window by Johannes Vermeer is one of the most famous works of seventeenth-century Dutch art.

“The most beautiful pastel ever seen” by Stephan Koja