Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the fifth annual Master Drawings New York. Modeled after the highly successful Master Drawings London, now in its 11th year, this event joins 24 galleries on New York's Upper East Side for the display of works on paper from the 15th through the 20th centuries, in mediums such as charcoal, watercolor, pastel, oil sketch, and more. The gallery will be presenting a broad selection of 20th century art, including watercolors by the early American modernists Oscar Bluemner and Charles Demuth; key examples of Abstract Expressionism from Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, and Lee Krasner; as well as works by eminent American and European figures such as Lee Bontecou, Richard Diebenkorn, Henri Matisse, and Gerhard Richter.
Master Drawings New York opens with a special preview on Friday, January 21st from 4 o'clock to 9 o'clock pm and continues through January 29th. The gallery's exhibition of works on paper will remain on view through February 26th.
Master Drawings in New York
January 21 - February 19, 2011
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) (1908-2001)
Study for "Girl at a Window" (Frederique), 1957
Pencil on paper
9 x 10 in; 22.9 x 25.4 cm
Framed dimensions: 16 x 13 5/8 in; 40.6 x 34.6 cm
Signed lower right "Bs"
Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938)
Canal, Bloomfield, New Jersey, n.d.
Watercolor on paper
4 13/16 x 6 7/8 inches; 12.2 x 17.5 cm
Framed dimensions: 11 1/4 x 14 inches; 28.6 x 35.6 cm
Inscribed with title and various notations on the reverse: "Canal Bloomfield, NJ Red Ego humble, blue space mind. Green always the she, alter ego #274 b) record"
Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938)
Sketch of Quincy Adams (Stirring Shadows), September 30, 1926, 7 pm
Watercolor on paper
4 1/2 x 5 1/2"; 11.4 x 14 cm
Framed dimensions: 14 1/2 x 15 3/4"; 36.8 x 40 cm
Initialed, lower left : "OFB" Artist's notes, verso
Lee Bontecou (b.1931)
Untitled, 1993
Silver pencil and colored pencil on black paper
26 x 21 in; 66 x 53.3 cm
Framed dimensions: 34 x 28 1/2 x 1 3/8 in; 86.4 x 72.4 x 3.5 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: "Bontecou 1993"
Lee Bontecou (b.1931)
Untitled, 1998
Pastel and colored pencil on black paper
11 x 15 in; 27.9 x 38.1 cm
Framed dimensions: 19 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 1 3/8 in; 48.9 x 57.2 x 3.5 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: "Bontecou 1998"
Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
Red Apples (Pink Peaches and Blue Plums, A Double-Sided Work), c. 1925
Watercolor and pencil on paper
7 1/2 x 9 9/16 in; 19.1 x 24.3 cm
Framed dimensions: 15 3/4 x 17 5/8 in; 40 x 44.8 cm
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993)
Untitled, 1980
Gouache and acrylic on paper
30 x 22 in; 76.2 x 55.9 cm
Framed dimensions: 31 3/8 x 26 3/8 in; 79.7 x 67 cm
Initialed and dated, lower right: "RD 80"
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
La lumière descend de l'ombrelle aux moissons (The Light Descends from the Parasol to the Harvest), 1969
Oil and collage/assemblage on painted wooden panel
18 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.; 47.9 x 41 cm
Framed dimensions: 26 3/4 x 24 in; 67.9 x 61 cm
Signed, lower right: "max ernst"
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)
Untitled, c. 1949
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 in; 61 x 45.7 cm
Framed dimensions: 31 1/2 x 25 1/2 in; 80 x 64.8 cm
Signed, lower left: "Adolph Gottlieb"
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
River, 1963
Gouache on paper
13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in; 34.3 x 26.7 cm
Framed dimensions: 21 1/8 x 18 7/8 in; 53.7 x 47.9 cm
Signed, titled and dated, on verso: "1963 YAYOI KUSAMA RIVER"
Agnes Martin (1912-2004)
Untitled, 1960
Ink on paper
9 x 9 in; 22.9 x 22.9 cm
Framed dimensions: 18 x 17 5/8 in; 45.7 x 44.8 cm
Signed, lower right: "a.martin '60"
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Nude, 1928
Pencil on paper
12 5/8 x 19 5/8 in; 32.1 x 49.8 cm
Framed dimensions: 23 5/8 x 30 5/8 in; 60 x 77.8 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: "Henri Matisse 1928"
Joan Mitchell (1926-1992)
Untitled, 1967-68
Watercolor on paper
16 1/4 x 13 in; 41.3 x 33 cm
Framed dimensions: 27 x 23 3/4 in; 68.6 x 60.3 cm
Signed, bottom right: "J. Mitchell"
Joan Mitchell (1926-1992)
Untitled, 1977
Pastel on two sheets of paper
9 1/2 x 14 3/4 in; 24.1 x 37.5 cm
Framed dimensions: 17 x 22 1/4 in; 43.2 x 56.5 cm
Signed, lower left: "J Mitchell"
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
11.März.1991, 1991
Watercolor on paper
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 in; 29.2 x 39.4 cm
Framed dimensions: 24 1/2 x 28 in; 62.2 x 71.1 cm
Signed and dated, on lower left: "Richter, 11.Marz 1991"
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Untitled (3.3.1986), 1986
Oil on paper
23 3/4 x 33 1/4 in; 60.3 x 84.5 cm
Framed dimensions: 25 5/8 x 36 1/8 in; 65.1 x 91.8 cm
Signed and dated, upper left: "3.3.86 / Richter"
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Untitled (12.2.91), 1991
Watercolor on paper
9 7/16 x 6 5/8 inches; 24 x 16.8 cm
Framed dimensions: 19 x 16 inches; 48.3 x 40.6 cm
Signed and dated lower recto: "Richter 12.2.91"
Fred Sandback (1943-2003)
Untitled, 1968
Pencil and marker on grey paper
19 x 21 3/4 inches; 48.3 x 55.2 cm
Framed dimensions: 24 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches; 62.2 x 67.9 cm
Signed lower right: "Sandback"
Fred Sandback (1943-2003)
Untitled, c. 1985
Pencil and pastel on rough Fabriano paper
27 3/4 x 39 3/8 inches; 70.5 x 100 cm
Framed dimensions: 33 1/2 x 45 inches; 85.1 x 114.3 cm
David Smith (1906-1965)
Untitled, 1957
Egg, ink, and gouache on paper
27 1/4 x 40 inches, 69.2 x 101.6 cm
Framed dimensions: 38 1/4 x 50 3/4 inches, 97.2 x 128.9 cm
Signed with initials and dated, lower right:
" Mar, 1957"
Stamped with the Estate of David Smith stamp and numbered, verso:
"73-57.25"
Philip Taaffe (b. 1955)
Melting Head, 2004
Oil and enamel on paper
39 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches; 101 x 67.3 cm
Framed dimensions: 46 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches; 118.1 x 82.6 cm
Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Oak Hill, 1968
Pastel on board
9 3/8 x 12 in; 23.8 x 30.5 cm
Framed dimensions: 25 1/8 x 27 3/8 x 1 1/2 in; 63.8 x 69.5 x 3.8 cm
Signed and dated, upper right: "Thiebaud 1968"
Terry Winters (B. 1949)
Ring II, 1984
Charcoal, chalk, crayon and pastel on paper
42 1/2 x 29 3/4 in; 108 x 75.6 cm
Framed dimensions: 59 1/2 x 39 1/4 x 1 1/2 in; 151.1 x 99.7 x 3.8 cm
Initialed and dated, lower left: " TW 1984"
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