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Chaim GrossTWO BALLERINAS Signed Lithograph Oval Watercolor Portrait, Ballet Dancers, Tutus1980
1980
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TWO BALLERINAS is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross. Endearing figure study of female dancers, TWO BALLERINAS was hand proofed and printed from lithographic plates on archival Arches paper in watercolor shades of blues, red, peach flesh tone, brown, yellow and graphite black for the drawing. TWO BALLERINAS is a sensitive oval shape portrait of two graceful young ballerinas with curly blonde hair, wearing ballet tights and fluffy tutus, flowing watercolor effect drawing. This original handmade lithograph measures 22.5 x 17.75 inches; a very fine impression pulled from hand drawn lithography plates using the age-old hand printing methods 1st used in fine art lithography printmaking.
TWO BALLERINAS is in pristine condition, unframed, pencil signed by Chaim Gross.
Edition size - 100, plus proofs
Year published - 1980
Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co. NY
Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921.
In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976).
In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture.
In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1963, Gross and his family moved from their longtime residence at 30 W. 105th Street to Greenwich Village, following the purchase of a four-story historic townhouse at 526 LaGuardia Place, which is now the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation.
In 1974, the Smithsonian American Art Museum held the exhibition, Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings, and in 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. In 1977, Gross had three retrospective exhibitions: at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, followed by the Montclair Art Museum; and at the Jewish Museum in New York City. In 1984, Gross was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss.
Chaim Gross passed away in New York at Beth Israel Hospital on May 5, 1991 and was buried at Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens, New York. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings.
Artist Bio from The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation NY
- Creator:Chaim Gross (1904-1991, American)
- Creation Year:1980
- Dimensions:Height: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)Width: 17.75 in (45.09 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent condition, never been framed, pencil signed P.P.(Printers Proof) aside from an edition of 100, hand deckled paper edges, printers chop on lower left corner.
- Gallery Location:Union City, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU83234624281
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