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Calliope (muse of epic poetry) signed and dated 'Hans Hofmann 63' (lower right); signed and dated again, titled and numbered 'Cat #1516 Calliope (muse of epic poetry) 1963 Hans Hofmann' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 72 x 60 in. (182.9 x 152.4 cm.) Painted in 1963. PROVENANCE Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York The Times Mirror Company, New York EXHIBITION New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann: Paintings, 1963, February-March 1964. NOTES This work will be included in the forthcoming Hans Hofmann catalogue raisonn‚ being supported by the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust. Tina Dickey, the author of the Hans Hofmann catalogue raisonn‚, writes of this work: "I intend to include Calliope (muse of epic poetry), 1963, in the Hans hofmann Catalogue Raisonn‚. Its joyful simplicicty, evocative of the Renate series to follow, is utterly remarkable given that the work was painted during the year of the sudden death of Hofmann's first wife, Maria (Miz), and long before he met Renate Schmitz. The open structure of the work is extraordinarily prescient of The Castle, painted two years later in 1965 (now owned by the Berkely Museum of the University of California).".