Gerald Gladstone
Gerald Gladstone
1929 - 2005
RCA
Gerald Gladstone always resisted definitive explanations for what his art meant. He described his welded metallic sculptures as intuitive representations of the universal order - an expression of his interest in the physics of time and space, in which he sought the link between the intangible infinite of the idea and the empirical dimensions of the object.
Born in Toronto in 1929 to British parents, Gladstone was the sixth of nine children. As a young man he dedicated himself to both painting and music, at one point forming a jazz band in which he played clarinet. In his early twenties he married, and supported his family with various jobs, eventually landing in commercial advertising where he worked for 15 years, rising to become the art director of a leading Toronto agency. Deciding that his passion lay elsewhere, he opened a studio and left the industry to devote himself full time to art. He found recognition among his contemporaries, exhibiting at the Isaacs Gallery alongside Canadian stalwarts Michael Snow and Graham Coughtry. In 1957 he had his first solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto. In 1959 he won a Canada Council travel grant and relocated his family to London for several years, where he studied at the Royal College of Art. There Gladstone met his mentor, prominent British sculptor Henry Moore, whose sensuous formalism is echoed in Gladstone’s later “earthbound” works like Female Landscape (1972), a public fountain in Montreal’s Place Ville Marie.
Gladstone is best known however for his “spacebound” sculptures of the 1960s - intersecting geometric forms of parabolas, cones and rods - the smaller works sometimes encased in blocks of clear lucite. He found success domestically and internationally through the 1960s and 1970s, having a solo show in New York and receiving numerous public and private commissions. For Expo ’67 in Montreal he constructed Uki, a fire-breathing dragon that rose out of a man-made lake. The Ontario government commissioned Gladstone to construct The Three Graces (1972), a public fountain which sits at Bay and Wellesley streets in Toronto. His largest work at over 21 feet and weighing some 6,000 pounds, the bronze colossus Universal Man (1976) was commissioned for the CN Tower, where it was displayed for over a decade before being relocated to the Yorkdale Shopping Centre. His international work includes a public fountain in Canberra, Australia and a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. in Los Angeles. The Art Gallery of Ontario held a retrospective of his work in 2003.
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Untitled by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $2,340
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
58 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 18 in 148.6 x 39.4 x 45.7 cm
circa 1962
steel sculpture mounted on laminated wood base
Estimation : $3,000 - $4,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $2,340 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
September 2009 - 4th Session le Thursday, September 24, 2009
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $2,250
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
25 x 10 x 10 in 63.5 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm
mixed media sculpture
Estimation : $1,500 - $2,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $2,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
November 2014 - 3rd Session le Saturday, November 29, 2014
Optical Orbital Series #4 by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $2,106
Gerald Gladstone
Optical Orbital Series #4
16 x 10 x 5 in 40.6 x 25.4 x 12.7 cm
1975
mixed media sculpture
Estimation : $1,000 - $1,200 CDN
Vendu pour : $2,106 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
March 2012 - 3rd Session le Thursday, March 29, 2012
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $1,989
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
58 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 18 in 148.6 x 39.4 x 45.7 cm
circa 1962
steel sculpture mounted on laminated wood base
Estimation : $3,000 - $4,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,989 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
July 2012 - 2nd Session le Thursday, July 26, 2012
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $1,170
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
15 x 10 x 10 in 38.1 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm
circa
steel and acrylic resin sculpture
Estimation : $2,000 - $3,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,170 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
September 2009 - 4th Session le Thursday, September 24, 2009
Universal Polarity by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $1,125
Gerald Gladstone
Universal Polarity
60 x 60 in 152.4 x 152.4 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $2,000 - $3,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,125 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Made in Ontario featuring Painters Eleven le Thursday, March 25, 2021
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $1,125
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
25 x 15 x 10 in 63.5 x 38.1 x 25.4 cm
lucite sculpture with original lightbox
Estimation : $2,000 - $3,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,125 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Art Now le Thursday, September 29, 2022
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $936
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
10 x 10 x 10 in 25.4 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm
plexiglass and metal illuminated sculpture
Estimation : $1,200 - $1,500 CDN
Vendu pour : $936 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
September 2013 - 2nd Session le Thursday, September 26, 2013
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $750
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
9 x 8 3/4 x 7 1/8 in 22.9 x 22.2 x 18.1 cm
mixed media sculpture
Estimation : $800 - $1,200 CDN
Vendu pour : $750 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
March 2016 - 4th session le Thursday, March 31, 2016
Abstract by Gerald Gladstone vendu pour $250
Gerald Gladstone
Abstract
12 x 12 in 30.5 x 30.5 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $300 - $500 CDN
Vendu pour : $250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Contemporary Curated le Thursday, January 28, 2021