1960s Portrait of a Lady Pastel Drawing by Irwin D. Hoffman, Framed

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A lovely Vintage Pastel on paper abstract Portrait by listed artist Irwin D. Hoffman (1901-1989) depicting an abstract female portrait … more A lovely Vintage Pastel on paper abstract Portrait by listed artist Irwin D. Hoffman (1901-1989) depicting an abstract female portrait of a young woman with Blue Eyes. She is both strong and soft. Signed lower left side " D. HOFFMAN and date of 1964. It has been signed by the artist and framed under clear glass in a wooden frame with a caning stretcher.
Known for Portrait, figure, and landscape painting, sculpture, lithography. Name variants: Erwin D Hoffman.

In excellent vintage condition, normal wear / marks consistent with age. small peeling on cane stretcher.
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ABOUT IRWIN D. HOFFMAN.


Irwin D. Hoffman, painter, etcher, sculptor and lithographer was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1901. He was one of four sons belonging to a set of Russian immigrants. Irwin stood out at an early age as being gifted artistically and at the age of fifteen he was enrolled as a special student and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.

Upon graduation Hoffman became a full-time student on full scholarship, and it was then, at the age of nineteen that he had his first solo show at Grace Horne Galleries in Boston. That exhibition was a huge success and the young artist was referred to as "a prodigy in portraiture" by the press. In 1924 Hoffman received the most prestigious award given by the Boston Museum S ... Displaying 750 of 11988 characters. less