Type: Oil on canvas
Canvas Size: 73.7 x 101.6 cm
Location: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Bequest: of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903
© Estate of Edward Hopper

Hopper completed the work when he was 69 years old. He had been married 27 years.

Rooms by the Sea is as close to the Surreal and Rene Magritte's masterpiece L'Empire des Lumieres II (1951) as it gets.

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Like Magritte's piece if you just look at this picture it is disquitening. What is going on? There's something missing: room, LAND, sea. Where is the land between the room and the sea? The room is so lucid, the sea is so lucid but there's a disconnect which makes it a masterpiece of the dreamscape. In film, you can see a similar sesnsation with the work of cinematographer, Jack Cardiff and his landscapes bathed in the bright light of Heaven (see A Matter of Life and Death or Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. The light is beautiful, dreamlike, but nothing is actually bathed in that colour in real life. And yet the effect on the viewer is that the image stays with you because it is 'real unreal' if I can put it like that.

We have a doorway onto the endless.

Random Hopper Fact
In 1943 visited Mexico by rail. In 1946 by car.

What Else Happened to Hopper in 1951?
Visit to Mexico which was his third. Brief stay in Santa Fe.

Where Is The Painting Now?
Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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