Lot 139
  • 139

Adolph Gottlieb

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Description

  • Adolph Gottlieb
  • Roman Three #2
  • signed, titled and dated 1963 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 90 by 60 in. 228.6 by 152.4 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection
Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York
Avanti Galleries Inc., New York
Private Collection, Chicago
Acquired by the present owner from above in 1992

Exhibited

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb: Twelve Paintings, February - March 1966, p. 3, illustrated
Cambridge, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Adolph Gottlieb, May - June 1966, fig. 4, illustrated
London, Marlborough Fine Art; Zurich, Marlborough Galerie, Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings 1959-1971, November 1971- March 1972 , p. 21, illustrated in color 

Literature

Jean-Luc Daval, "Lettre De Suisse," Art International, vol. 16, April 20, 1972, p. 65, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition. There are two vertical cracks, one extending 8 inches 22 inches from the bottom and 23 inches from the right edge. The second are of cracking extends measuring approximately 1 inch in diameter and is located approximately 27 inches from the bottom and 28 inches from the right edge. There is no evidence of restoration under UV light. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

The role of the artist, of course, has always been that of an image maker. Different times require different images. Today when our aspirations have been reduced to a desperate attempt to escape from evil, and times are out of joint, our obsessive, subterranean and pictographic images are the expression of the neurosis which is our reality. To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time.
- Adolph Gottlieb