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Adolph Gottlieb
Collaborative Etching With 6 artist (Hand Signed by 3 artists)
1933-74

Name: Collaborative Etching With 6 artist (Hand Signed by 3 artists)
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Adolph Gottlieb, David Smith, Dorothy Dehner, Edgar Levy, Lucille Corcos and Ether Gottlieb Collaborative Etching With 6 artist (Hand Signed by 3 artist), 1933-1974 Etching Signed and dated in pencil by Dorothy Dehner and Edgar Levy and signed in pencil by Esther Dick Gottlieb on the front, edition 79/100 Framed Art historian Karen Wilkin, who owns an edition of this rare work, calls this once-in-a-lifetime collaborative etching "An important document of the history of American Art." It is rarely found on the market as other editions are in the National Portrait Gallery, the Whitney, and other prominent collections. If you don't snag this one, another may not come around for a long time. Here's the incredible story: One evening in 1933, six artists gathered at the Brooklyn Heights apartment of Edgar Levy and his wife Lucille Corcos at 66 Montague Street. Adolph Gottlieb was there with his wife Esther Dick and David Smith with his wife Dorothy Dehner. It was decided to make an etching, each one to make a portrait of another. Who was to portray whom was determined by drawing lots. The zinc plate was divided into six parts - Top row: Lucille Corcos by Dorothy Dehner, David Smith by Lucille Corcos, Adolph Gottlieb by Edgar Levy. Bottom row: Edgar Levy by Esther Gottlieb, Dorothy Dehner by Adolph Gottlieb, Esther Gottlieb by David Smith. The animals in the borders are by Edgar Levy. The resulting plate was proofed and a few copies made in 1933, but it wasn't until 1974 when the edition of 100 was printed. In a 2012 New Criterion article review of Adolph Gottlieb, historian Karen Wilkin wrote: "For years a wonderful little etching has hung near my desk. It commemorates an evening in 1933 when a group of young artists in Brooklyn Heights, three men and three women, celebrated their friendship, ambition, and dedication to modernism by making portraits of one another on a single etching plate. The couples were Edgar Levy and his wife Lucille Corcos, David Smith and his wife Dorothy Dehner, and Adolph Gottlieb and his wife Esther Dick. Who was to portray whom was decided by drawing lots. The result was a grid of vivid characterizations: Levy by Dick, Corcos by Dehner, Smith by Corcos, Dehner by Gottlieb, Gottlieb by Levy, and Dick by Smith. In the top left box, Corcos’s slenderness is suggested by a few delicate lines. Beside her, Smith’s full lips and short nose are rendered energetically; in the next square, Gottlieb’s heavy-lidded eyes and natty moustache are insistently hatched. Everything is presented in ways that bear witness to the various authors’ energy, their sense of camaraderie, and their shared admiration for vanguard art, especially for Picasso. By the time the print was editioned, not long after Gottlieb’s death in 1974, only Dehner, Dick, and Levy survived to sign their sections of the drawing. And by then, the playful evening’s amusement of 1933 had turned into an important document of the history of American art. Each of the six protagonists had been, in his or her own way, a 'player.' ..." Measurements: Framed: 14.25 x 12.75 x 0.4 inches Artwork: 10 x 11.2 inches Good vintage condition; overall toning; not examined outside of vintage frame; (see photos)

Creator:

Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974, American)

Creation Year:

1933-74

Dimensions:

Height: 14.25 in (36.2 cm)Width: 12.75 in (32.39 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1.02 cm)

Medium:

Etching

Movement & Style:

Modern

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Condition:

Good vintage condition; overall toning; not examined outside of vintage frame; (see photos).

Gallery Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1745212443542

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Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb was an American Abstract Expressionist artist known for his prints, paintings and sculptures. He is considered one of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionists.

From 1920–21 Gottlieb studied at the Art Students League of New York, after which, having determined to become an artist, he left high school at the age of 17 and worked his passage to Europe on a merchant ship. He traveled in France and Germany for a year. He lived in Paris for 6 months during which time he visited the Louvre Museum every day and audited classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

Gottlieb spent the next year traveling in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and other parts of Central Europe, visiting museums and art galleries. When he returned, he was one of the most traveled New York artists.

Gottlieb had his first solo exhibition at the Dudensing Galleries in New York City in 1930. During the 1920s and early 1930s, he formed lifelong friendships with other artists such as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Milton Avery, and John Graham. In 1935, he and nine others, including Ben-Zion, Joseph Solman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Louis Harris, Jack Kufeld, Mark Rothko, and Louis Schanker, known as “The Ten,” exhibited their works together until 1940. It was in the late 1930s when Gottlieb moved to the desert in Tuscon, where he moved from an Expressionist–Realist style approach to a style that combines elements of Surrealism and formalist abstraction.

Throughout his career, Gottlieb had 56 solo exhibitions and was included in over 200 group exhibitions. His works of art are in the collections of more than 140 major museums around the world.

Gottlieb was accomplished as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. He designed and oversaw the construction of a 1500 square-foot stained glass façade for the Milton Steinberg Center in New York City in 1954, and he designed a suite of 18 stained glass windows for the Kingsway Jewish Center in Brooklyn. He was the first of his generation to have his art collected by the Museum of Modern Art (1946) and the Guggenheim Museum (1948).

Gottlieb suffered a major stroke in 1970 that left him paralyzed except for his right arm and hand. In 1972 he was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he continued to paint and to exhibit his art until his death in March of 1974.

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