“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Leo Castelli畫廊
紐約Rosa及Aaron Esman伉儷收藏（1964年購自上述來源）
現藏者繼承自上述來源文學
Edward A. Foster 19
Esther Sparks 15
Rosa及Aaron Esman伉儷收藏
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《XXXIV繪畫，致但丁地獄 (F. 19, S. 15)》
1964年作
全套35幅版畫，包括Kar石版畫和34幅彩色傳真，Angoumois à la main紙本和編織紙本（全包邊，全紙本）附John Ciardi翻譯的《但丁地獄》文本 全部存於原裝布面文件夾
Kar紙本：16 1/4 x 15 1/2 英吋 (41.3 x 39.4 公分)
文件夾：18 5/8 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/2 英吋 (47.3 x 47 x 6.4 公分)
款識：簽名、標題、日期、2/44（Kar）簽名、172（版權頁）
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尚有300版及7版石版畫，由紐約州Universal Limited Art Editions畫廊及Harry N. Abrams共同出版。
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