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“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 edition publisher with the strong support of Aaron, a psychoanalyst and passionate collector, with interests in Modernism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, and American Pop Art taking center stage. Rosa began publishing portfolios of prints by contemporary artists in the 1960s. Editions such as the New York Ten Portfolio, 1965, and Ten from Leo Castelli, 1967, which featured works by rising contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg, 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 Esman collection, regardless of genre.
Art was one of several passions that Rosa and Aaron shared, even when they began dating in the early 1950s. In 1952, they bought their first artwork together, a drawing by Miró, initiating their shared pursuit of inspired collecting that would continue for the rest of their lives. Rosa recalled: “sometimes we look at something, and I say, ‘Oh, isn’t that marvelous?’ and Aaron would respond, ‘It’s for us.’”i 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.
René Magritte, La belle lurette, 1965, Private Collection. Image: Photothèque R. Magritte / Adagp Images, Paris, / SCALA, Florence, Artwork: © 2024 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York i Rosa Esman, interviewed by James McElhinney, "Oral History Interview with Rosa Esman," Archives of American Art, June 9–16, 2009, online.
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Provenance
Jasper Johns benefit for John Cage, 1966
Rosa and Aaron Esman, New York (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present ownersLiterature
Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 195 (illustrated; titled Drawing)
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, III: Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, London, 1993, fig. a., p. 418 (illustrated on the cover of Rhétorique)
Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman
105
La belle lurette
signed "Magritte" lower left
ballpoint pen on paper
6 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (17.1 x 21.6 cm)
Executed circa 1965, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Magritte.
Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000
Annie Dolan
NY Head of Auctions and Specialist, Head of Sale, Morning Session
212 940 1288
adolan@phillips.com
Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session
New York Auction 15 May 2024
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Emmi Whitehorse (Diné)
Canyon Lake I
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai)
Eagle Wing
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Hedda Sterne
Untitled
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Wolfgang Paalen
Phantoms I
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René Magritte
La belle lurette
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106
Chico da Silva
Untitled
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Bill Traylor
Black Bear
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Elaine de Kooning
Untitled (Bullfight Series)
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Lois Dodd
Wild Geraniums
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Willem de Kooning
Still Life
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Milton Avery
The White Hen and Fantasy Creatures (double-sided)
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Milton Avery
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Arshile Gorky
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Guy Pène du Bois
Conversation - Paris Cafe (Yvonne Pène du Bois)
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Raoul Dufy
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André Derain
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Jeune femme assise
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Pierre Bonnard
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Odilon Redon
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Henri Matisse
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Small Tree near Cairo
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Philip Guston
Untitled
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Lynne Drexler
Untitled
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Michael Corinne West
Save the Tiger
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Judith Rothschild
Figure in Space
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Hans Hofmann
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Alice Baber
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Zen IV
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Vivian Springford
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Helen Frankenthaler
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Joan Mitchell
Untitled
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Norman Lewis
Untitled
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Charles Alston
Black and White #7
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Ernie Barnes
Human Celebration
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Andy Warhol
Three works: (i-iii) Bobby Short
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Peter Saul
Prune Head
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Super Kachina
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Skull
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Untitled
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Butterfly
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NOV. 8, 1977 (from Today Series, no. 23)
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Suddenly Spastic
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Ed Ruscha
TREMBLING STALKS OF AQUATIC VEGETATION
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We're This and We're That Aren't We?
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Josef Albers
Study for Homage to the Square: Oracle
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Donald Judd
Untitled
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Untitled
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Richard Serra
Untitled
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Brice Marden
Honey's Drawing
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Agnes Martin
Untitled
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Ed Clark
Ife
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Gerhard Richter
Untitled 26.2.89
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Richard Serra
Untitled #21
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Lynn Chadwick, R.A.
Maquette, High Wind
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Moissey Kogan
Mädchenkopf I (Head of a Girl I)
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Gaston Lachaise
Garden Figure (second state) [LF 137]
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Manolo Valdés
Reina Mariana
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Aristide Maillol
La nymphe aux fleurs
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Édouard Vuillard
Mme Arthur Fontaine au piano
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André Derain
Nus dans un paysage
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Louis Valtat
Les deux soeurs assises, Madame Zette et Madame Juin
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Maurice de Vlaminck
Village et bord de rivière
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André Derain
Nature morte avec bouteille
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Jean Metzinger
Femme au perroquet (La fenêtre)
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175
Alexander Calder
Untitled
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Alexander Calder
Bow Tie
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John Chamberlain
Tonk #8
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Robert Indiana
Number 0
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Robert Rauschenberg
Access
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Ken Price
Lower
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181
Lawrence Weiner
Stretched As Tightly As Is Possible (Satin) & (Petroleum Jelly)
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182
Neil Jenney
Biosphere #3
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183
Joseph Kosuth
'Word, Sentence, Paragraph (Z. & N.) #16'
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184
Jack Goldstein
Untitled
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185
James Rosenquist
The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy, Gift Wrapped Doll #18
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186
Richard Estes
Staten Island Ferry Docking
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Richard Estes
Passages (Shopping Center)
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188
Isamu Noguchi
Small Wonder
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189
John McCracken
Vibe
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John McLaughlin
Untitled
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John McLaughlin
Untitled
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192
Alfred Leslie
Hipped
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Alfred Leslie
Lake Front Property
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Leon Polk Smith
Great Hall
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Lorser Feitelson
Magical Space Forms
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Jean-Paul Riopelle
Cold Climate
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Michael Goldberg
Untitled
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James Brooks
Blow
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Friedel Dzubas
Night Shuttle
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Ilya Bolotowsky
Ellipse with Yellows
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201
Ed Clark
Love Birds
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202
Alex Katz
Jessica (Study for New Pink)
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
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203
Andy Warhol
Karen Lerner
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204
Richard Pettibone
Andy Warhol 'Lavender Disaster', 1964
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Richard Pettibone
Andy Warhol 'Liz' 1962
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Kenny Scharf
BEYOND
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Peter Saul
He Forgot Something
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208
Karel Appel
Bride
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Karl Wirsum
Ahh! Macy's Grazed
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210
Cundo Bermúdez
Arlequines
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211
Gustav Klimt
Frontal stehend, linke Hand an die Hüfte gelegt (Standing Woman with Hand on Hip)
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Armand Guillaumin
Gelée blanche à Crozant
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213
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
The Beach and Along the Sea with Boat and People (double-sided)
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214
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Study St. Malo
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Milton Avery
Young Mother and Child
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Reginald Marsh
Coney Island (double-sided)
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217
Willem de Kooning
Reclining Woman
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Willem de Kooning
Reclining Women
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219
Martín Ramírez
Untitled (Arches)
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220
Jean Dubuffet
Réchaud-four à Gaz
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Jean Dubuffet
Personnage
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Hans Hartung
P10-1976-H20
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Peter Saul
Study for Prune Head
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224
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Free comb with Pagoda
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
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Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign
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Andy Warhol
Ladies and Gentlemen
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Alexander Calder
Rose des sables
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Alexander Calder
Grass
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Alexander Calder
Untitled
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Alighiero Boetti
Pisciarsi in bocca
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Nuvolo (Giorgio Ascani)
Primavera Inoltrata
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Daniel Spoerri
Tavola toscana (Post-Sevillane, Tableau piège)
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