- Artist
- Adolph Gottlieb 1903–1974
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 914 × 1219 mm
frame: 942 × 1247 × 60 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1980
- Reference
- T03095
Catalogue entry
T03095 Labyrinth No.2 1950
Inscribed ‘ADOLPH GOTTLIEB’ bottom right and ‘ADOLPH GOTTLIEB/1950/36 × 48/“LABYRINTH#2”’ on back of canvas
Oil on canvas, 36 × 48 (91.5 × 122)
Purchased from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation through the André Emmerich Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
Exh: Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings 1945–1974, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, January–February 1977 (works not listed, repr.in colour); Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, April–May 1978 (no catalogue); Grids: Format and Image in 20th Century Art, Pace Gallery, New York, December 1978–January 1979 (works not numbered, repr.); Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, March–May 1979 (works not numbered, repr.)
Repr: New York Magazine, 7 February 1977, p.64 in colour
There are three paintings titled ‘Labyrinth’. ‘Labyrinth’ and ‘Labyrinth No.2’ date from 1950 and both measure 36 × 48in.; ‘Labyrinth No.3’ dates from 1954 and measures 84 × 192in. The first two paintings are part of the Pictograph group. The other is part of a smaller series which Gottlieb referred to as ‘Labyrinths’, although only this one painting bears that title. (Information from Sanford Hirsch, 8 December 1982).
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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