Ethel Schwabacher Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Ethel Schwabacher Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 28, 2024
Ethel K. SCHWABACHER (1903-1984) USA, American, NY
Est: $60,000 - $90,000
Ethel K. SCHWABACHER (1903-1984) ; oil on canvas / mid 20th century ; dimensions 127 x 170 cm (50 x 67 in.) ; signed lower left corner ; Shipping to USA - DHL $885 , National post with tracking service $590 / Shipping to EU, Russia, Middle Assia - DHL $715 , National post with tracking service $535
Art-Torg
Feb. 16, 2024
Ethel K. SCHWABACHER (1903-1984) USA - American - NY
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Ethel K. SCHWABACHER (1903-1984) ; Abstract ; mid 20th century ; oil on canvas / unframed ; dimensions 86 x 117 cm (34 x 46 in.) ; signed lower left corner ; Shipping to USA - DHL $835 , National post with tracking service $525 / Shipping to EU, Middle Assia - DHL $645 , National post with tracking service $475
Art-Torg
Mar. 10, 2023
ETHEL SCHWABACHER (1903-1984) Untitled oil on canvas 9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ETHEL SCHWABACHER (1903-1984) Untitled oil on canvas 9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 24, 2022
Ethel Schwabacher, American (1903 - 1984), untitled #122, 1956, mixed media on paper, 11"H x 9"W (sight), 17"H x 15"W (frame)
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Ethel Schwabacher American, (1903 - 1984) untitled #122, 1956 mixed media on paper Signed / initialed, and dated lower right. Exhibited: 1987 Works From the Fifties at Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York. Biography from the Archives of AskArt: The following is submitted by Mrs. H.E. Schwabacher of New York City: Ethel Schwabacher was born in New York in 1903. At the age of fifteen, she enrolled at the Art Students League and two years later studied sculpture at the National Academy of Design. After apprenticing with stone carvers and studying sculpture with Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1923, Schwabacher gave up sculpture for painting. In 1927, she enrolled in Max Weber's painting class at the Art Students League and that year met and began a long association with Arshile Gorky. (Schwabacher wrote the foreword to the 1951 Whitney Museum of American Art catalog, "Arshile Gorky, memorial Exhibition" and authored the 1957 monograph on the artist.) While living in Europe from 1928 to 1934, she studied painting in France and Austria and underwent psychoanalysis, an experience that began her life-long interest in Freudian psychoanalysis. Through Arshile Gorky, with whom she studied from 1934 to 1936, Schwabacher was introduced to surrealist automatism, and consequently she combined clear references to nature with free-associational images drawn from her unconscious. Her variation of biomorphic abstraction, with its "fauve" colors and intensified contrasts, heralded her later styles. In the 1950's, Schwabacher developed themes of childbirth, women, and children. her paintings also reinterpreted mythological subjects, emphasizing themes of separation, anxiety, loneliness and loss. While painful personal experiences (including the untimely death of her husband and the artist's depression and several suicide attempts) may inform her affinity for tragic subjects, she transcended her own experiences by selecting epic and heroic themes, such as those found in Greek tragedies.
Ripley Auctions
Sep. 24, 2022
Ethel Schwabacher, American (1903 - 1984), untitled #124, 1956, mixed media on paper, 11"H x 9"W (sight), 17"H x 15"W (frame)
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Ethel Schwabacher American, (1903 - 1984) untitled #124, 1956 mixed media on paper signed / initialed upper, dated lower. Exhibited: 1987 Works From the Fifties at Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York. Biography from the Archives of AskArt: The following is submitted by Mrs. H.E. Schwabacher of New York City: Ethel Schwabacher was born in New York in 1903. At the age of fifteen, she enrolled at the Art Students League and two years later studied sculpture at the National Academy of Design. After apprenticing with stone carvers and studying sculpture with Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1923, Schwabacher gave up sculpture for painting. In 1927, she enrolled in Max Weber's painting class at the Art Students League and that year met and began a long association with Arshile Gorky. (Schwabacher wrote the foreword to the 1951 Whitney Museum of American Art catalog, "Arshile Gorky, memorial Exhibition" and authored the 1957 monograph on the artist.) While living in Europe from 1928 to 1934, she studied painting in France and Austria and underwent psychoanalysis, an experience that began her life-long interest in Freudian psychoanalysis. Through Arshile Gorky, with whom she studied from 1934 to 1936, Schwabacher was introduced to surrealist automatism, and consequently she combined clear references to nature with free-associational images drawn from her unconscious. Her variation of biomorphic abstraction, with its "fauve" colors and intensified contrasts, heralded her later styles. In the 1950's, Schwabacher developed themes of childbirth, women, and children. her paintings also reinterpreted mythological subjects, emphasizing themes of separation, anxiety, loneliness and loss. While painful personal experiences (including the untimely death of her husband and the artist's depression and several suicide attempts) may inform her affinity for tragic subjects, she transcended her own experiences by selecting epic and heroic themes, such as those found in Greek tragedies.
Ripley Auctions
Oct. 09, 2021
Ethel Schwabacher, American (1903-1984), Ode #III, 1951, oil on canvas, 24" H x 20" W (image), 26 1/4" H x 22" W (frame)
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
EthelSchwabacherAmerican(1903-1984)Ode #III, 1951oil on canvassigned and dated upper left. Provenance: From a private collector, Indianapolis. Provenance: Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, Inc. New York, Exhibited 1987, "Ethel Schwabacher: Works From the Fifties", and 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco. From the archives of AskArt: The following is submitted by Mrs. H.E. Schwabacher of New York City: Ethel Schwabacher was born in New York in 1903. At the age of fifteen, she enrolled at the Art Students League and two years later studied sculpture at the National Academy of Design. After apprenticing with stone carvers and studying sculpture with Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1923, Schwabacher gave up sculpture for painting. In 1927, she enrolled in Max Weber's painting class at the Art Students League and that year met and began a long association with Arshile Gorky. (Schwabacher wrote the foreword to the 1951 Whitney Museum of American Art catalog, "Arshile Gorky, memorial Exhibition" and authored the 1957 monograph on the artist.) While living in Europe from 1928 to 1934, she studied painting in France and Austria and underwent psychoanalysis, an experience that began her life-long interest in Freudian psychoanalysis. Through Arshile Gorky, with whom she studied from 1934 to 1936, Schwabacher was introduced to surrealist automatism, and consequently she combined clear references to nature with free-associational images drawn from her unconscious. Her variation of biomorphic abstraction, with its "fauve" colors and intensified contrasts, heralded her later styles. In the 1950's, Schwabacher developed themes of childbirth, women, and children. her paintings also reinterpreted mythological subjects, emphasizing themes of separation, anxiety, loneliness and loss. While painful personal experiences (including the untimely death of her husband and the artist's depression and several suicide attempts) may inform her affinity for tragic subjects, she transcended her own experiences by selecting epic and heroic themes, such as those found in Greek tragedies. 24" H x 20" W (image), 26 1/4" H x 22" W (frame)
Ripley Auctions
Dec. 15, 2020
Ethel Schwabacher (1903-1984) - Woman: Red Sea, Dead Sea
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Ethel Schwabacher (1903-1984) Woman: Red Sea, Dead Sea oil on canvas in artist's painted frame 31 x 37 in. (78.7 x 94 cm.) Painted in 1951.
Christie's
May. 21, 2020
Ethel Schwabacher (American, 1903-1984) Ode # II, 1951
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Ethel Schwabacher (American, 1903-1984) Ode # II, 1951 oil on linen signed Ethel Schwabacher and dated (lower left); titled (verso) 25 x 18 inches. Provenance: Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003
Hindman
Apr. 25, 2013
ETHEL K. SCHWABACHER, American (1903-1984), Surrealist Composition, oil and collage on canvas, signed and dated 1935 on the reverse....
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
ETHEL K. SCHWABACHER American (1903-1984) Surrealist Composition oil and collage on canvas, signed and dated 1935 on the reverse. 12 x 9 Provenance: Georgette Passedoit Modern Art Gallery, New York.
Shannon's
Apr. 26, 2010
SCHWABACHER, ETHEL (AMERICAN, 1903-1984): Watercolor. Abstract. Signed, dated 1961 lower right. Fragmentary labels on verso.
Est: $400 - $600
SCHWABACHER, ETHEL (AMERICAN, 1903-1984): Watercolor. Abstract. Signed, dated 1961 lower right. Fragmentary labels on verso. 40 x 26."
Braswell Galleries
Jun. 27, 2009
Ethel K. Schwabacher (American, 1903-1984) Soak-Stain Abstraction Signed and dated "Ethel Sch...
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Ethel K. Schwabacher (American, 1903-1984) Soak-Stain Abstraction Signed and dated "Ethel Schwabacher 1961" in pencil l.r., identified on a partial label from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, affixed to the reverse. Watercolor on paper, 26 x 40 in., framed. Condition: Subtle rippling, not examined out of frame.
Skinner
Nov. 30, 2005
Ethel K. Schwabacher American 1903-1984 A BULL IN THE LILLY GARDEN
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Ethel K. Schwabacher American 1903-1984 A BULL IN THE LILLY GARDEN Pastel on paper 23 1/4 x 27 inches (59.1 x 68.6 cm.) Estimate $10,000-15,000 good condition. Paper laid down on paperboard, which was glued at a few points to cardboard backing (now pulled away during examination). Some of the pastel rubbed onto covering glass, but of no detrimental effect to work. A few possible scattered very small depressions to the very edge from nail pressure.
Doyle New York