HARRY GOTTLIEB (1895 1992) Change in Shift

Sale 2692 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 5,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

HARRY GOTTLIEB (1895 - 1992)

Change in Shift.
Color screenprint, circa 1940. 420x510 mm; 16⅝x20 inches, full margins. Published by the Federal Arts Project, WPA, New York. Intended edition of 35, but thought to be much rarer. Signed in pencil lower right within the image, and inscribed, Another Day, in pencil, lower margin.

Literature
Conkleton, Sheryl, "Harry Gottlieb: The Silkscreen and Social Concern in the WPA Era," Rutgers University, The Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, illus., cover, in color, 1983.

Gottlieb is best known for his work in the silkscreen medium, which he helped pioneer as a fine art medium under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Print Division in the 1930s and 40s. This is an exceedingly rare and important silkscreen done by a pioneer in the silkscreen process. A highly impressive and large scale print depicting figures in an industrial landscape, considered among the artists best work.
Gottlieb's silkscreens produced for the FAP, WPA are in several important musem collections.

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We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years.