Art
"Unicyclist" by Chaim Gross Original Color Lithograph w/ Gold frame
- Item Number
- 102
- Estimated Value
- 140 USD
- Sold
- 40 USD to chbc73150
- Number of Bids
- 6 - Bid History
Item Description
Artist: Chaim Gross
Original Color Lithograph 103/150
Gold frame in good condition
Hanger: included
Dimensions (including frame): W 27.25" x H 33.5"
For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes. His acrobats, cyclists, and mothers and children convey joyfulness, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Hasidic heritage, which teaches that "only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God."
Born in the Carpathian Mountains in Austrian Galicia, Gross was the son of a lumber merchant. He displayed an interest in drawing at an early age and throughout his life produced a prodigious number of graphic works, many of which were preparatory studies for his sculptures. After a turbulent nomadic existence caused by World War I, Gross immigrated to New York City in 1921. He first studied drawing in night classes at the Educational Alliance art school while working during the day as a delivery boy.
A friend's remark that Gross's drawings had a very sculptural quality provided the impetus to study this medium at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he was briefly taught by Elie Nadelman.
In 1932, in the midst of the Depression, Gross had his first solo exhibition at The Gallery 144 in New York. Like many other artists, he benefited greatly from the support of the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project. In the late 1930s the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned him to execute several works for federal buildings; these helped to establish him as a major contemporary sculptor.
The human body became a source of abstract invention in which Gross simplified forms to stress dynamic rhythms; realism was secondary.
After World War II, Gross began to explore different subjects and techniques. The loss of family members in the Holocaust provoked an interest in Judaic subject matter.
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/gross/gross-noframe.html?/exhibitions/online/gross/grossmuseum1.htmlS
Item Special Note
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Central Pennsylvania Kosher Mart
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