PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION Adolph Gottlieb Black Note 1971 Oil on canvas. 60 x 48 in. (152.5 x 122 cm). Signed, titled, dated "Adolph Gottlieb 1971 Black Note" and stamped by the Estate of Adolph Gottlieb on the reverse.
Provenance American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich Exhibited New York, Marlborough Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb Paintings 1971-1972, November 1972 Literature Marlborough Gallery, ed., Adolph Gottlieb Paintings 1971-1972, New York, 1972, pl. 2 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay One of the most celebrated colorists of Abstract Expressionism, Adolph Gottlieb refers to a natural landscape with a striking field of color and stripped down forms so elemental in Black Note. The painting is an informed example of the Burst Series, Gottlieb’s signature motif during the 1960’s and 1970’s which he continued to work on despite suffering immobility from a stroke in 1970. Black Note highlights Adolph Gottlieb’s interest in using color as a symbol. Robert Doty, the Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1968, who, with Diane Waldman of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum co-curated the first retrospective of Adolph Gottlieb’s work understood the process as an expression of gesture: …at a certain point intuition becomes operative as well, and the choice of a certain color may be dictated by impulse. This is the point at which feeling takes over from rationality. Gottlieb supported the discourse by adding, “I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.” Adolph Gottlieb in R. Doty and D. Waldman, Adolph Gottlieb New York, 1968 Over the years Gottlieb’s painting has become monumental. As his concepts developed, they simplified. The culmination of Gottlieb’s schematic arrangement was reached in the painting Burst. It was immediately hailed as a milestone by the critic Clement Greenberg: “What makes such a picture difficult- difficult in the best sense is its monumental simplicity, which seems more than the conventions of easel painting can tolerate. R. Doty and D. Waldman, Adolph Gottlieb New York, 1968 Read More
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION Adolph Gottlieb Black Note 1971 Oil on canvas. 60 x 48 in. (152.5 x 122 cm). Signed, titled, dated "Adolph Gottlieb 1971 Black Note" and stamped by the Estate of Adolph Gottlieb on the reverse.
Provenance American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich Exhibited New York, Marlborough Gallery, Adolph Gottlieb Paintings 1971-1972, November 1972 Literature Marlborough Gallery, ed., Adolph Gottlieb Paintings 1971-1972, New York, 1972, pl. 2 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay One of the most celebrated colorists of Abstract Expressionism, Adolph Gottlieb refers to a natural landscape with a striking field of color and stripped down forms so elemental in Black Note. The painting is an informed example of the Burst Series, Gottlieb’s signature motif during the 1960’s and 1970’s which he continued to work on despite suffering immobility from a stroke in 1970. Black Note highlights Adolph Gottlieb’s interest in using color as a symbol. Robert Doty, the Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1968, who, with Diane Waldman of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum co-curated the first retrospective of Adolph Gottlieb’s work understood the process as an expression of gesture: …at a certain point intuition becomes operative as well, and the choice of a certain color may be dictated by impulse. This is the point at which feeling takes over from rationality. Gottlieb supported the discourse by adding, “I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.” Adolph Gottlieb in R. Doty and D. Waldman, Adolph Gottlieb New York, 1968 Over the years Gottlieb’s painting has become monumental. As his concepts developed, they simplified. The culmination of Gottlieb’s schematic arrangement was reached in the painting Burst. It was immediately hailed as a milestone by the critic Clement Greenberg: “What makes such a picture difficult- difficult in the best sense is its monumental simplicity, which seems more than the conventions of easel painting can tolerate. R. Doty and D. Waldman, Adolph Gottlieb New York, 1968 Read More
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