LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

90.12 in. (228.90 cm.) (height) by 45.12 in. (114.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed

Exhibited:

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., Gottlieb: New York, January 1958. Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie International, December 1958 - February 1959, cat. no. 62, illustrated. Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Adolph Gottlieb, April - June 1963. Sao Paulo, VII Biennial of the Museu de Arte Moderna, American Section, September - December 1963, cat. no. 20, illustrated. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery; Waltham, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Adolph Gottlieb, February - October 1968, cat. no. 69, p. 107, illustrated (New York), pl . 31, p. 59, illustrated (Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art). New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Coming to Light - Avery Rothko Gottlieb - Provincetown Summers 1957-1961, May - August 2002, pp. 42-43 and 97, illustrated in color. New York, Jason McCoy Gallery, Black and White, November - December 2014

Literature:

Lillian Lonngren, "Abstract Expressionism on the American Scene," Art International, Vol. II, No. 1, 1958, p. 55. "Dramatic International Opens Today," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 5, 1958, illustrated. Gordon Bailey Washburn, "Pittsburgh International," L’Oeil Revue d’Art, January, 1959, illustrated. Hilton Kramer, "Report on the Carnegie International," Art Magazine, January, 1959, illustrated. "Modern Coup at the Carnegie," Life Magazine, January 26, 1959, illustrated. "Artes Letras," SDN (Sao Paulo), March, 1963, illustrated. Martin Friedman, "Adolph Gottlieb: Private Symbols in Public Statements," Artnews, May, 1963. "American Painter Wins Sao Paulo Competition," Washington Post, September 29, 1963, illustrated. "Blast II," Washington International Art Letter, February 3, 1964, illustrated. Mary Davis MacNaughton, The Paintings of Adolph Gottlieb 1923-1974, Ann Arbor, 1981. E.A. Carmean Jr., "Summer of Inspiration," Arts & Antiques, June, 2002, n.p., illustrated

Provenance:

André Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York. Seagrams Building Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1958). Christie's, New York, May 15, 2003, lot 106. Private Collection, Los Angeles . Jason McCoy Inc., New York . Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2008