“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
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現藏者繼承自上述來源文學
Arturo Schwarz 608
Catalogue Essay
Marcel Duchamp designed a stopper in order to fill the bath of his home in Cadaqués, Spain, in 1961; in 1967, the International Collectors Society began casting the stopper under the title Duchamp Art Medal – turning a commonplace, functional object into a valuable work of art.
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《水槽塞，又名勳章雕塑 (S. 608)》
1964/1967年作
鑄銅複製品
2 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 3/8 英吋 (6.4 x 6.4 x 1 公分)
款識：簽名、日期 64、編號 10/100（底部）
尚有60版銅版、30版不銹鋼版、70版純銀版、各配12版藝術家試作版，以及100版杜尚遺孀的許可於1981-82年版本。
估價
$3,000 - 5,000
成交價$6,858
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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
