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Adolph Gottlieb

Counterpoise

Auction Closed

May 20, 10:17 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Adolph Gottlieb

1903 - 1974

Counterpoise


signed and titled (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

108 by 90 in.

274.3 by 228.5 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Estate of the artist
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Sotheby's New York, 2 May 1988, lot 24
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
The Gerald Peters Gallery, New Mexico
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above in 1991 by the present owner
Barbara Rose, American Art Since 1900, New York, 1967, p. 197, illustrated in color
Terry Measham, The Moderns: 1945-1975, Oxford, 1976, p. 16, illustrated in color
Paul-Emile Borduas, Oeuvres Picturales 1943-1960, Brussels, 1982, p. 54, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Knoedler & Company, Coming to Light: Avery, Gottlieb, Rothko; Provincetown Summers 1957-1961, 2002, p. 83 (text)