PaceWildenstein
32 E 57th St
2nd fl
212.421.3292
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Adolph Gottlieb, Expanding, Courtesy Pace Wildenstein
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May 2, 2008 – June 14, 2008
Tuesdays–Fridays (9:30am–6pm)
Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and European contemporaries — he was neither a violent drunk (Pollock), a brooding suicidal (Rothko), nor an attention-starved dandy (Yves Klein). This might be one of the reasons he didn't capture the popular imagination. Gottlieb was simply an assiduous painter working diligently over several decades to produce spare, alternately playful and stoic abstractions that were often haiku-like in their frugality. A retrospective at PaceWildenstein shows that he was as adept at the austere color field as he was at the emotive, gestural burst.
