“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 文學
Joan Simon 153 (Nauman)
Catalogue Essay
Including: David Bradshaw, Tears; Stephen Kaltenback, Fire; Bruce Nauman, Record; Alan Saret, Untitled; Richard Serra, Rolled, Encased, & Sawed; and Keith Sonnier, Plaster Cast in Satin
Rosa及Aaron Esman伉儷收藏
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《7件物品/69》
1969年作
全套六件複製品，包括一幅附兩釘的畫布、青銅人行道牌匾、附絲網印刷外套的黑膠唱片、再加工尼龍網複製品、鉛製複製品和緞鑄石膏複製品 全部存於原裝木盒連黃銅扣, 缺少Eva Hesse。
盒：9 3/8 x 23 7/8 x 13 1/2 英吋 (23.8 x 60.6 x 34.3 公分)
款識：簽名（兩組）A（四組、原裝識別標籤）
尚有100版及10版A-J藝術家試作版，David Bradshaw版畫缺少識別標籤，由紐約Tanglewood Press出版。
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