In 1960 Adolph Gottlieb had a solo exhibition at Galerie Neufville in Paris, France. The exhibition featured 7 large paintings and 4 oils on paper.
Installation photos by Robert David.
Below is an inside look at the correspondence between gallery director Lawrence Rubin and Gottlieb. It becomes apparent that the show was well received and the director was quite pleased.
Below is a sampling of reviews from the exhibition.
“Gottlieb belongs to the same group as Kline, Pollock, and Gorky (these last two are no longer of this world). His art is more subtle, more refined and more civilized than that of his peers, the American Abstract Expressionists. It bears the hallmark of China. Huge black, yellow, green and orange suns illuminate unusual landscapes, made of black ink spots or splashes of rich polychromy”
- review of “Gottlieb” in COMBAT, 1963
“That this artist was influenced by Asian painting, that he therefore strove to find a new space, is not in doubt. Rather than varying his themes and effects, he prefers to place on the background of each of his paintings, above a calm solar or lunar disk, below a violent black serif, to draw from this contrast a strong poetic feeling. If his process, repeated, risks generating some monotony, we nonetheless appreciate his specific pictorial qualities, as well as his laudable concern for elegant simplicity. Nothing arbitrary, nothing neglected in the art of this painter, one of the most interesting of the American school”
- review of “Gottlieb” in “Expositions”, CARREFOUR, November 23, 1960
Below are some color images of paintings that were in the exhibition.
