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INTERVIEW WITH ADOLPH GOTTLIEB
Artist's Studio, May 20, 1969

MRS Elayne Varian: Speaking with Adolph Gottlieb and his association with his present gallery, which is Marlborough-Gerson and some of his previous galleries. Would you tell me what you like about your present situation with your gallery as versus previous galleries with whom you have been associated.
MR. Adolph Gottlieb: Well, the thing I like particularly is that I have no problems with them . I like my association with Marlborough-Gerson, I have had no difficulties with them whatsoever.
E.V.: Do you have a contract, a formal contract?
A.G.: Yes, a formal contract, they handle my work exclusively.
E.V.: Here, and in Europe?
A.G.: All over the world. They also handle my graphics, prints, and whatever else I will be doing like sculpture. Or tapestries or whatever.
E.V.: Now, do they give you, how do they work it out? Is it so much a month or do you get so much a year or...
A.G.: No, I just tell them that I want so much money and I get it.
E.V.: And do you have an accounting at the end of the year?
A.G.: We have an accounting at the end of the year. Several times a year. I am never overdrawn, I can overdraw if it would be necessary. I generally draw somewhat in relation to what my sales are. So that the relatiohship is excellent.
E.V.: If you start a sculpture, I mean became more involved than you are now, and this is apparent with most artists, the material and the fabricating and all is very very expensive and this is then when they then get help from galleries. It isn't as if you were brand new at this, your work would sell, it wouldn't be waiting to be sold, the way that younger artists are. I suppose that's why they have more of a problem of paying for the casting or paying for the steel.
A.G.: Yes, well in my case, it's matter of principal for me too. To do, only do what I can afford, in other words, if I make prints,
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