Lot 31
  • 31

ADOLPH GOTTLIEB | Red Ground

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Adolph Gottlieb
  • Red Ground
  • signed
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 30 in. 61 by 76.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1956.

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York
Solomon & Co. Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in January 1983

Exhibited

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Abstract Expressionists and their Precursors, January - March 1981

Condition

This work is in fair condition overall. The canvas is lined. There is scattered, stable linear cracking and craquelure with some associated pinpoint pigment losses throughout the work, most prominently visible to the light pink upper register of the painting. There are a few scattered surface accretions and minor areas of pigment discoloration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

“I frequently hear the question 'What do these images mean?' This is simply the wrong question. Visual images do not have to conform to either verbal thinking or optical facts. A better question would be 'Do these images convey any emotional truth' This, of course, indicates my belief that art should communicate. However, I have no desire to communicate with everyone, only with those whose thoughts and feelings are related to my own.” Adolph Gottlieb