“I think a good dealer is also a collector.”
—Rosa EsmanRosa and Aaron Esman assembled an outstanding collection of Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary art over the course of their seventy-year marriage. The collection’s highlights mirror that of Rosa’s career as a gallerist and print publisher (which Aaron, a psychoanalyst, strongly supported), with interests in Modernism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, and American Pop Art taking center stage. Rosa got her start publishing artists’ print portfolios in the 1960s, including the New York Ten Portfolio, 1965, and Ten for Leo Castelli, 1967, which featured works by rising contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg, and helped pioneer the field of artist’s editions and multiples. Her eponymous gallery exhibited in Manhattan for over twenty years, and she was a founding partner of Ubu Gallery, which is still in operation today.
When asked about her wide artistic tastes in 2009, Rosa emphasized her love of drawing, “the quintessential bit of the art,” which can be seen across the collection, regardless of genre.
The pair bonded over gallery visits when dating in the early 1950s. While Aaron already had begun collecting by then, the first work they purchased together was a drawing by Miró, early in their marriage. Rosa recalled: ‘sometimes we look at something, and I say, “Oh, isn’t that marvelous?”’ and Aaron would respond, ‘It’s for us.’
Founded on lifelong love, the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman gives a unique vision of the art movements of the 20th century that shaped New York’s art scene.
Rosa and Aaron Esman, Madrid, 1963 來源
紐約Sidney Janis畫廊
紐約Rosa及Aaron Esman伉儷收藏（1963年購自上述來源）
現藏者繼承自上述來源文學
Francis O'Conner and Eugene Thaw 1095
Reba and Dave Williams, The Prints of Jackson Pollock, Print Quarterly, December 1988
Helen A. Harrison, Jackson Pollock: Prints, exhibition catalogue, The Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1997
Gavin Delahunty, Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, Tate Publishing, London, 2015
Rosa及Aaron Esman伉儷收藏
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《無題 (1951年22號後) (O'C. & T. 1095)》
1951年作
絲印版畫 Strathmore紙本（全包邊，如出版所示，連Strathmore印）
圖像：21 1/2 x 16 5/8 英吋 (54.6 x 42.2 公分)
紙本：28 7/8 x 22 7/8 英吋 (73.3 x 58.1 公分)
款識：簽名、日期、Ed 25/12
尚有1951年25版、1964年Lee Krasner及藝術家遺產管理委員會50版無簽名及無編號版，由藝術家和他的兄弟Sanford McCoy在康州Deep River印刷，此為已裱。
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$30,000 - 50,000
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