'69 US Framed Litho Print 42/90 "Levitation" by Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)(PaR)

Up for sale from a recent estate in Honolulu Hawaii, this 1969 US limited edition 42/90 color litho print on paper that is titled "Levitation" and is signed and was created by the well known artist Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974). The condition is described above for more information please check the photos. Free local pick up possible!!! We are working with Oppenheimer Inc. in Chicago for our paper conservation needs. We are getting a discount on any work due to the volume we are doing that I would be happy to extent to the winning bidder.

Measurements:

Image 30 inches x 22 inches

Frame 30 ½ inches x 22 ½ inches

More About The Artist:

Born in New York City in 1903, Adolph Gottlieb was a founding member of The Ten, a group devoted to abstract art with whom he was active for about five years. He became a major exponent of Abstract Expressionism whose painting style is linked to Marc Rothko, Clyfford Still and Barnet Newman. A major theme in Gottlieb's painting is the challenge to humans to resolve dualities within the universe, the pressure of opposites: male and female, chaos and order, creation and destruction, order and chaos.


His career is described as having four phases: Pictographs (1940s), Grids and Imaginary Landscapes (1951 to 1957), Bursts (1957 to 1974) and Imaginary Landscapes (1960s). Although he lived primarily in New York City and was one of the few Abstract Expressionists born in that city, time spent in Arizona and Provincetown, Massachusetts had a marked influence on him.


Gottlieb studied at the Art Students League with Social Realists John Sloan and Robert Henri, but left abruptly in 1921 for Paris where he enrolled at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere. Returning in 1923, he lived in New York and developed an interest in primitive sculpture.


He was a WPA mural artist and painted a mural in 1939 for the Post Office in Yerington, Nevada. From 1937 to 1939, he was in Tucson, Arizona, which influenced his subsequent "pictograph" series that occupied him the remainder of his life. The pictographs involved compartmentalized grid divisions of the canvas, primitive iconography and imaginary landscapes and were intended "to evoke mythological responses" (Baigell 141).


For him, the time in the Arizona desert was a time of transition from expressionist landscapes to highly personal still lifes of simple desert items such as gourds and peppers. From November 13, 1999 to January 9, 2000, the Tucson Museum of Art held an exhibition, "Adolph Gottlieb and the West", sponsored by the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. The publicity described it as "dedicated to more than 50 works from the seminal Abstract Expressionists little-known 1937-1938 stay in the Arizona desert."


I the early 1950s, he designed a stained-glass exterior, 1,350 square feet, for the Milton Steinberg Memorial Center in New York City. His work was religious in tone but not specifically dogmatic.

Condition: 

The print is in good pre-owned condition, not inspected out of the frame, the paper is evenly toned and would benefit from a professional cleaning, some scratches on the plexi glass, the frame should be opened up and the inside should be wiped down, the plexi with some abrasions in places, w. collection card giving the artist name and where and when purchased, this and the other artworks listed with the client code (PaR) were collected by a archivist of the National Archive in DC over the past 50 years, the print can be taken out of the frame for a much more economical shipping rate,