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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dr. Artur Tankikowski for his assistance in cataloguing this work.
Almost the only subjects of the few still lifes by Gottlieb are fish and vegetables or flowers. The depiction of fish began to appear in Gottlieb’s paintings and drawings since his first trip to the Mediterranean. An important date for the artist was 1913, when Gottlieb was travelling through Spain with fellow painter Diego Rivera. During this time he visited Toledo and the local hospital for the blind and from then until the end of the 1920s, the Polish-Jewish artist executed a number of compositions in various techniques showing workers cleaning sardines at the hospital. Some further still lifes depicting fish were created after Gottlieb’s return to France, between 1924 and 1925 where he travelled to the south, namely Collioure, Nice and Cagnes. The motifs in Still Life with Fish, a deep bowl with fish, and a clay pot, places the work within a series of several other similar works Gottlieb executed during this period.
Almost the only subjects of the few still lifes by Gottlieb are fish and vegetables or flowers. The depiction of fish began to appear in Gottlieb’s paintings and drawings since his first trip to the Mediterranean. An important date for the artist was 1913, when Gottlieb was travelling through Spain with fellow painter Diego Rivera. During this time he visited Toledo and the local hospital for the blind and from then until the end of the 1920s, the Polish-Jewish artist executed a number of compositions in various techniques showing workers cleaning sardines at the hospital. Some further still lifes depicting fish were created after Gottlieb’s return to France, between 1924 and 1925 where he travelled to the south, namely Collioure, Nice and Cagnes. The motifs in Still Life with Fish, a deep bowl with fish, and a clay pot, places the work within a series of several other similar works Gottlieb executed during this period.