La Rêverie: The Collection of Sydell Miller
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB (1903-1974)

Pictograph

Price realised USD 425,000
Estimate
USD 250,000 – USD 350,000
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ADOLPH GOTTLIEB (1903-1974)

Pictograph

Price realised USD 425,000
Closed: 14 May 2021
Price realised USD 425,000
Closed: 14 May 2021
Details
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB (1903-1974)
Pictograph
signed 'Adolph Gottlieb' (lower right)
oil on canvas
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1942.
Provenance
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York
Knoedler & Co., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998
Literature
S. Kootz, New Frontiers in American Painting, New York, 1942, pl. 31 (illustrated).
B. Newman, "La Pintura de Tamayo y Gottlieb," La Revista Belga, April 1945.
A. Valente, ''Adolph Gottlieb: An Individualistic Artist Who Decries The Unintelligible in Modern Painting," Promenade, February 1949.
M. Davis, ''The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb: A Synthesis of the Subjective and the Rational," Arts Magazine, November 1977.
A. Hudson, "Adolph Gottllieb: An Artist Who Is Surviving," Arts Magazine, March/April 1978.
W. Rubin, Primitivism in 20th Century Art, New York, 1984, p. 616 (illustrated).
E. Kennelly, "Gottlieb’s Message Expresses in Symbols and Signs," The Washington Times, 9 October 1994.
A. Wallach, ''A New Light on African Creations," New York Newsday, 7 July 1995.
D. Anfam, ''New York and Little Rock: Adolph Gottlieb," Burlington Magazine, January 1996.
D. Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America, Chicago, 1998, p. 65 (illustrated).
D. Kuspit, ''Adolph Gottlieb: Knoedler and Company," Artforum, XXXVII, September 1998 (illustrated).
Surrealistas en el Exilio Y Los Inicios de la Escuela de Nueva York, exh. cat., Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, 2000, p. 27 (illustrated).
I. Sandler, Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation, New York, 2009, p. 94 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Artists Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings, December 1942-January 1943.
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Art Associate of Montreal; San Francisco, de Young Memorial Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Art in Our Century, 1949, p. 106, pl. 37 (illustrated).
Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery; Calgary, Glenbow-Alberta Institute; Art Gallery of Windsor; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and Art Gallery of Ontario, Adolph Gottlieb: Pictographs, November 1977-September 1978, no. 4 (illustrated).
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb Pictographs, 1941-1953, March-April 1979, n.p. (illustrated)
Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; Manchester, Currier Museum of Art and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Adolph Gottlieb Paintings 1921-1956, May 1979-June 1980, p. 30 (illustrated).
Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; The Tampa Museum; The Toledo Museum of Art; The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery; Flint Institute of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and The Tel Aviv Museum, Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective, April 1981-January 1983, p. 91, no. 37 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Portland Museum of Art; The Brooklyn Museum and Little Rock, The Arkansas Arts Center, The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb, September 1994-January 1996, pp. 71 and 137, no.4 (illustrated).
New York, Knoedler Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb Pictographs: A Selection from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, March-April 1998, n.p. (illustrated).

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