Gala 2025 Auction Lot 1: Albert Kotin

Albert Kotin
Minsk, Belarus 1907–1980 New York, NY
Untitled, circa 1967
Oil on canvas mounted on board, 5 ½ × 8 ¼ inches
Value: $6,000
Courtesy of Hollis Taggart
A 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,” a
circle of artists in lower Manhattan that included Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and
Jack Tworkov. Kotin was among the group of artists selected to participate in the historic
Ninth Street Show in 1951 that formally inaugurated Abstract Expressionism as the first
American art movement to exert international influence.
Kotin studied at the Art Students League of New York; the Hans Hoffmann School; the
Académie Julian in Paris, France; the National Academy of Design, New York; and
Charles Hawthorne’s The Cape Cod School of Art. Kotin’s work has been exhibited
extensively and is held in the collections of The Art Students League of New York;
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California; Everson
Museum of Art; and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.