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Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB Omen.
Etching and aquatint on cream laid paper, 1944-45. 250x300 mm; 9 3/4x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 2/8 in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant impression of this extremely scarce, early etching with all the fine lines distinct.
According to the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, only three other impressions are known, two of which are in the Foundation's collection.
We have found only 2 other early, 1940s etchings by Gottlieb at auction in the past 25 years; the extremely small number of impressions that survive are mainly found in museums and private collections. Associated American Artists 17 (illustration page 7).
