Focus on East Wind Over Weehawken and explain the Provenance.
Hopper made at least eight sketches for the painting which he delivered to his gallerist Frank K.M. Rehn in April 1934. The studies are part of the collection at the Whitney Museum to which Hopper, before his death, decided to leave his unsold work.East Wind Over Weehawken was included in the 1950 Hopper retrospective at the Whitney (New York), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and the Detroit Institute of Arts while still in the possession of Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries. It was acquired by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts directly from the gallery in 1952, fifteen years before the death of the painter, at a very low price.In 2013 the Pennsylvania Academy put the painting up for sale in the hopes of garnering the $22–$28 million at which the painting was valued, which it intended to use to establish an endowment. About twenty five percent of the fund will be dedicated to filling gaps in the collection of historic art. The remainder will be used for new investments in contemporary art of undetermined value, with hopes for dramatic increases in the future.The painting sold for $36 million ($40.5 million with fees) at Christie's in New York to an anonymous telephone bidder. This was a record for a Hopper work until the sale of Chop Suey for nearly $92 million in 2018. The previous record, for Hotel Window sold in 2009, was $26.9 million.
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