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ADOLPH GOTTLIEB Orange Oval.
Color screenprint, 1972. 480x610 mm; 18 3/4x23 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 133/150 in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression with strong colors.
After high school, Gottlieb (1903-1974) attended the Art Students League in New York and traveled Europe in the early 1920s. He became friends with Mark Rothko (1903-1970) in the 1930s and the two often worked and exhibited together when possible. He and Rothko were founding members of the group of artists known as The Ten, who began meeting together in New York in 1934.
In the early 1930s, Gottlieb became interested in etching, buying an old press from a junk shop and printing proofs for his enjoyment in very small editions. Most of these which survive are from the 1940s, and show strong ties to the Surrealist prints of Joan Miró, Kurt Seligmann, and Yves Tanguy. These modernists were making prints alongside younger artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning at the Atelier 17 studio in New York.
Gottlieb began making color screenprints during the 1960s and early 1970s, usually turning to his earlier paintings for compositional sources. Many of these color screenprints were published in New York. Gottlieb might have adopted screenprinting through the influenced by the technique of Pollock, who had also used the technique of screenprinting to produce images based on his paintings in the 1950s (see lots 7 and 8). Associated American Artists 72.
