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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.
來源
1966年賈斯珀．約翰斯為約翰．基治舉辦的慈善活動
紐約Rosa與Aaron Esman伉儷收藏（購自上述來源）
現藏者繼承自上述來源文學
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)
Rosa與Aaron Esman伉儷收藏
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《美麗的盧雷特》
款識：Magritte（左下方）
原子筆 紙本
6 3/4 x 8 1/2 英吋（17.1 x 21.6 公分）
約1965年作，此作已獲馬格利特委員會確認，並附保證書。
估價
$80,000 - 120,000
成交價$152,400
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