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Tom Lieber (1949) Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting

Sold for $2,500 at California Auctioneers on Sep 29, 2024.

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Measures approx. 60" X 72", 'Untitled S.B.' signed and marked 1985 Oil verso with a Pamela Auchincloss Santa Barbara Gallery Tag. On large wood frame & stretcher measures approx 62" x 74" in excellent condition. Provenance: Santa Barbara Collection Tom Lieber received an MFA from the University of Illinois in 1974 and shortly there after relocated to San Francisco. In 1975 Lieber was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts artists’ grant and in 1982 was selected for the Emerging American Artists’ Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 1983 Lieber began making large-scale monotypes with Garner Tullis at Experimental Press. Since the mid-1980s, Tom Lieber's work has been shown and celebrated internationally; it comprises such permanent collections as the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; and the Tate Gallery in London." Momentum Gallery. Sources Carter Ratcliff, Utopian Contingencies: The Paintings of Tom Lieber; Tom Lieber: Recent Paintings (San Francisco: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 2003)

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