Gala 2025 Auction Lot 1: Albert Kotin

Albert KotinMinsk, Belarus 1907–1980 New York, NYUntitled, circa 1967Oil on canvas mounted on board, 5 ½ × 8 ¼ inchesValue: $6,000Courtesy of Hollis TaggartA core member of the New York School’s first generation of Abstract Expressionists,Albert Kotin enjoyed a prolific output in the 1950s as part of the “Downtown Group,” acircle of artists in lower Manhattan that included Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, andJack Tworkov. Kotin was among the group of artists selected to participate in the historicNinth Street Show in 1951 that formally inaugurated Abstract Expressionism as the firstAmerican art movement to exert international influence.Kotin studied at the Art Students League of New York; the Hans Hoffmann School; theAcadémie Julian in Paris, France; the National Academy of Design, New York; andCharles Hawthorne’s The Cape Cod School of Art. Kotin’s work has been exhibitedextensively and is held in the collections of The Art Students League of New York;Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Fi