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Adolph Gottlieb
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Hidden Image
- signed; signed, titled and dated 1950 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 42 by 54 in. 106.7 by 137.2 cm.
Provenance
Collection of the artist
Esther Gottlieb, New York
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Esther Gottlieb, New York
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Kootz Gallery, Gottlieb: New Paintings, January 1951
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 146th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, January - February 1951
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Adolph Gottlieb, February - October 1968, p. 49, illustrated
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Portland Museum of Art; The Brooklyn Museum; Little Rock, The Arkansas Art Center, The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb, September 1994 - January 1996, cat. no. 59, p. 126, illustrated in color
Berlin, Raab Galerie, Adolph Gottlieb, October 1996 - January 1997
New Britain Museum of Art; Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Coral Gables, University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum; Palo Alto, Stanford University, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, The Beginning of Seeing: Tribal Art and the Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb, October 2002 - January 2004, cat. no. 33, p. 53, illustrated in color
New York, PaceWildenstein, Adolph Gottlieb: Pictographs 1941-1951, October - December 2004, cat. no. 30, illustrated in color
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 146th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, January - February 1951
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Adolph Gottlieb, February - October 1968, p. 49, illustrated
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Portland Museum of Art; The Brooklyn Museum; Little Rock, The Arkansas Art Center, The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb, September 1994 - January 1996, cat. no. 59, p. 126, illustrated in color
Berlin, Raab Galerie, Adolph Gottlieb, October 1996 - January 1997
New Britain Museum of Art; Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Coral Gables, University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum; Palo Alto, Stanford University, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, The Beginning of Seeing: Tribal Art and the Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb, October 2002 - January 2004, cat. no. 33, p. 53, illustrated in color
New York, PaceWildenstein, Adolph Gottlieb: Pictographs 1941-1951, October - December 2004, cat. no. 30, illustrated in color
Literature
"Dynamik und Ruhe," Die Welt, 26 November 1996, illustrated
David Cohen, "Paying Tribute to an American Mythmaker," The New York Times, 3 December 2004, p. E41
Donald Kuspit, "Adolph Gottlieb: PaceWildenstein," Artforum, March 2005, p. 237 (text)
David Cohen, "Paying Tribute to an American Mythmaker," The New York Times, 3 December 2004, p. E41
Donald Kuspit, "Adolph Gottlieb: PaceWildenstein," Artforum, March 2005, p. 237 (text)
Condition
This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges. There are areas of fine scattered cracking and craquelure throughout, all of which appears stable. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"The role of the artist, of course, has always been that of 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