LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and enamel on linen

Measurements:

90.00 in. (228.60 cm.) (height) by 60.24 in. (153.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'Adolph Gottlieb 'BONAC' 1961' (verso)

Exhibited:

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, American Painting 1962, March-April 1962, n.p., no. 3 (illustrated). Toronto, Klonaridis Inc., Adolph Gottlieb: Major Works of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, March 1979. New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Adolph Gottlieb, October 1985, n.p., no. 11 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

B. H. Hayes Jr., "Paleta Amerykanska," Ameryka, Fall 1962, p. 28 (illustrated in color). Art in America, vol. 73, no. 7, July 1985, p. 26 (illustrated in color). A. M. Baxter, "Lawrence Rubin marchand d'Art pour le plaisir," Art Press, July-August 1988, p. 35 (illustrated). A. M. Scott and C. D. Geist, eds., The Writing on the Cloud: American Culture Confronts the Atomic Bomb, Maryland, 1997, pp. 75-76. C. Frankel, "Mr. Rachofsky's Dream House," Art & Antiques, vol. 20, no. 9, October 1997, pp. 77 and 81 (installation views illustrated in color). D. Ngo, ed., Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection + Residence, San Francisco, 2006, n.p. (installation views illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Estate of the artist Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, 1985 Private collection, Dallas Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2002