PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, MIAMI Adolph Gottlieb Plus signed "Adolph Gottlieb" lower right; further signed and titled ""PLUS" ADOLPH GOTTLIEB" on the reverse oil and enamel on linen 36 x 40 in. (91.4 x 101.6 cm.) Executed in 1950.
Provenance Estate of the Artist Collection of Esther Gottlieb, New York Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York PaceWildenstein, New York Private Collection, Miami (acquired from the above by the present owner) Exhibited Bennington College Gallery; Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art, A Retrospective Show of the Paintings of Adolph Gottlieb April 23 - May 23, 1954 New York, Stable Gallery, Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, April 25 - May 21, 1955 New York, PaceWildenstein, Adolph Gottlieb Paintings from Four Decades, May 2 - July 14, 2008, no. 2, n.p. (illustrated) Literature Samson Lane Faison Jr., "Art", The Nation, May 15, 1954, p. 428 Catalogue Essay "I adopted the term Pictograph for my paintings out of a feeling of disdain for the accepted notions of what a painting should be…I decided that to acquiesce in the prevailing conception of what constituted 'good painting' meant the acceptance of an academic strait-jacket. It was therefore necessary for me to utterly repudiate so-called 'good painting' in order to be free to express what was visually true for me” Adolph Gottlieb Read More
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, MIAMI Adolph Gottlieb Plus signed "Adolph Gottlieb" lower right; further signed and titled ""PLUS" ADOLPH GOTTLIEB" on the reverse oil and enamel on linen 36 x 40 in. (91.4 x 101.6 cm.) Executed in 1950.
Provenance Estate of the Artist Collection of Esther Gottlieb, New York Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York PaceWildenstein, New York Private Collection, Miami (acquired from the above by the present owner) Exhibited Bennington College Gallery; Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art, A Retrospective Show of the Paintings of Adolph Gottlieb April 23 - May 23, 1954 New York, Stable Gallery, Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, April 25 - May 21, 1955 New York, PaceWildenstein, Adolph Gottlieb Paintings from Four Decades, May 2 - July 14, 2008, no. 2, n.p. (illustrated) Literature Samson Lane Faison Jr., "Art", The Nation, May 15, 1954, p. 428 Catalogue Essay "I adopted the term Pictograph for my paintings out of a feeling of disdain for the accepted notions of what a painting should be…I decided that to acquiesce in the prevailing conception of what constituted 'good painting' meant the acceptance of an academic strait-jacket. It was therefore necessary for me to utterly repudiate so-called 'good painting' in order to be free to express what was visually true for me” Adolph Gottlieb Read More
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