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Adolph Gottlieb
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Bowery Burst
- signed, titled and dated 1970 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 90 1/2 by 60 1/4 in. 230 by 153 cm.
Provenance
Marlborough Gallery, London
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibited
Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Adolph Gottlieb, March 1970, n.p., illustrated
London, Marlborough Gallery; Zurich, Marlborough Galerie AG, Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings 1959-1971, November 1970 - March 1972, p. 49, illustrated in color
London, Marlborough Gallery; Zurich, Marlborough Galerie AG, Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings 1959-1971, November 1970 - March 1972, p. 49, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
“Yet, despite the universality of Gottlieb’s primal double-image, it strikes one as symbolic of particular dualistic relations, and the longer one contemplates, the greater the number that come to mind. It is remarkable that this should occur in an art that is nothing but abstract, each vertical picture consisting only of two centrally placed, contrasting forms: the upper, a controlled, rounded contained, luminous disc within an halo; the lower, an impetuous, jagged, explosive or disintegrating, opaque area. The “bursts” appear to aim at and succeed in evoking a dual response. They stun with their immediacy while inviting slow reflection.” (Irving Sandler, Adolph Gottlieb, Paintings 1945-1974, exh. cat, New York, André Emmerich Gallery, 1977)