Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (lower right): hans hofmann 62; (verso): Cat #1417/ veluti in speculum/ (clear as a miror [sic])/ oil on canvas/ 84 x 72 1962/ hans hofmann
[Kootz Gallery, New York, until 1963; sold to MMA]
New York. Kootz Gallery. "Hans Hofmann: New Paintings at the Kootz Gallery," March 5–23, 1963.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting," December 11, 1963–February 2, 1964, no. 57.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970," October 18, 1969–February 8, 1970, no. 120.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries," November 14, 1970–June 1, 1971, no. 390.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Accessions, 1967–1974," March 7–April 23, 1974, no catalogue.
Washington D. C. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. "Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition," October 14, 1976–January 2, 1977, no. 60.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition," February 4–April 3, 1977, no. 60.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Twentieth Century Art," October 16, 1979–January 30, 1980, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Hans Hofmann in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 13–October 17, 1999, unnumbered cat. (pl. 3).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Hans Hofmann: Selected Paintings," November 18, 2014–April 19, 2015, no catalogue.
J. D. "Exhibition at Kootz Gallery." Arts Magazine 37 (April 1963), p. 55.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 194–95, ill. p. 196.
Mahonri Sharp Young. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centenary Exhibitions I. The New York School." Apollo 90 (November 1969), p. 432, fig. 7.
Theodore Rousseau. "Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 29 (November 1970), ill. p. 135.
Grace Glueck. "An Abstractionist Dancing with Color." New York Times (May 21, 1999), p. E32.
Suzi Villiger, ed. Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. Vol. 3, Catalogue Entries P847–PW89 (1952–1965). Surrey, 2014, p. 381, no. P1447, ill. (color), calls it "Veluti in Speculum (Clear as a Mirror)".
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Hans Hofmann (American (born Germany), Wessenburg 1880–1966 New York)
1965
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