“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
Brenda Danilowitz 156.1-156.10
Catalogue Essay
Including: Wide Light; Thaw; Tenuous; Equivocal; Patina; Full; Shielded; Aura; Reserved; and Joy
Rosa及Aaron Esman伉儷收藏
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《向正方形致敬：約瑟夫．亞伯斯十件作品 (D. 156)》
1962年作
全套10組絲印版畫 Mohawk Superfine Bristol紙本（全包邊）顏色明亮清新，每組存於印有標題的紙製文件夾，附藝術家文本、標題頁、Arnold Newman以鉛筆簽名和題字的藝術家黑白照片原件，全部存於原裝奶色麻布面文件夾及黑卡書套
圖像：11 x 11 英吋 (27.9 x 27.9 公分)
紙本：17 x 17 英吋 (43.2 x 43.2 公分)
文件夾：18 x 17 1/2 x 1 1/4 英吋 (45.7 x 44.5 x 3.2 公分)
款識：藝術家簡稱（標題頁）183/250（版權頁）
由康州Ives-Sillman畫廊出版。
估價
$30,000 - 50,000
成交價$95,250
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限量版畫及紙本作品
紐約拍賣 2023年4月18至20日
