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Adolph Gottlieb — Untitled (Cora's Two Sisters)
Adolph Gottlieb

Untitled (Cora's Two Sisters)

1932

Two women occupy an intimate domestic interior in this oil painting from the early 1930s. The seated figure in black gazes upward while a standing figure in a pink patterned dress leans against a wooden chair, their poses suggesting a narrative of quiet companionship or tension. The composition employs warm earth tones, ochres, and browns in the background, contrasting with the cooler grays of the upholstered furniture and the saturated pink of the standing figure's dress. The work exemplifies the figurative modernism of its era, combining observational portraiture with flattened spatial relationships and expressive brushwork characteristic of American painting in the Depression decade.

Medium
Oil on table linen, mounted on board
Overall

Notes

Pace Gallery solo presentation at TEFAF New York 2026, Booth 340, May 15–19, 2026, Park Avenue Armory, New York. Pace inventory ref: 34620.

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Adolph Gottlieb, Untitled (Cora's Two Sisters), 1932

Two women occupy an intimate domestic interior in this oil painting from the early 1930s. The seated figure in black gazes upward while a standing figure in a pink patterned dress leans against a wooden chair, their poses suggesting a narrative of quiet companionship or tension. The composition employs warm earth tones, ochres, and browns in the background, contrasting with the cooler grays of the upholstered furniture and the saturated pink of the standing figure's dress. The work exemplifies the figurative modernism of its era, combining observational portraiture with flattened spatial relationships and expressive brushwork characteristic of American painting in the Depression decade.

Medium
Oil on table linen, mounted on board
Dimensions
overall: 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Year
1932
Seen at
Pace Gallery, New York, USA

Related themes

Seated Figure, Expressive Brushwork, Warm Palette, Figurative Painting, Interior Scene, Modern Portraiture, 1930s Modernism, Black Clothing, Brown Tones, Domestic Space, Psychological Space, Pink Dress, Standing Figure, Oil Painting, Two Figures, Portrait, American Art, Intimate Scene, Female Subjects, Social Realism

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Sebastián Naranjo