HOPPER EDWARD (1882-1967)
Nationality : American
Activity: Painter and engraver
Average price rate: Between $ 150,000 and 900,000 Born in New York, Hopper was a self-taught artist who somewhat lived as a solitary man.
He first wanted to free himself from the tutelage of French painting though he came in 1906 to Paris where he painted paintings in the manner of Seurat before finding such style too much French.
After working as an illustrator he became known during an exhibition of watercolours in 1924 and soon resumed painting oil works in representing a rather boring American daily life with much realism though his representation of urban scenes seemed somewhat unreal.
Hopper often left art critics at a loss but impressed many abstract artists via his rather Cubist lines of buildings filled with dehumanised figures looking like robots.
This artist was regarded as a figurative painter of an abstract reality, which he represented under crude light in a geometrical manner thus expressing a kind of inhuman reality threatening the industrialised civilisation.
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