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 sold for $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
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000 CDN
Sold for: $2,340 CDN (premium included)
September 2009 - 4th Session on Thursday, September 24, 2009
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone sold for $2,250
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
25 x 10 x 10 in, 63.5 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm
mixed media sculpture
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000 CDN
Sold for: $2,250 CDN (premium included)
November 2014 - 3rd Session on Saturday, November 29, 2014
Optical Orbital Series #4 by Gerald Gladstone sold for $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
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200 CDN
Sold for: $2,106 CDN (premium included)
March 2012 - 3rd Session on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone sold for $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
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000 CDN
Sold for: $1,989 CDN (premium included)
July 2012 - 2nd Session on Thursday, July 26, 2012
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone sold for $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
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 CDN
Sold for: $1,170 CDN (premium included)
September 2009 - 4th Session on Thursday, September 24, 2009
Universal Polarity by Gerald Gladstone sold for $1,125
Gerald Gladstone
Universal Polarity
60 x 60 in, 152.4 x 152.4 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 CDN
Sold for: $1,125 CDN (premium included)
Made in Ontario featuring Painters Eleven on Thursday, March 25, 2021
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone sold for $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
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 CDN
Sold for: $1,125 CDN (premium included)
Art Now on Thursday, September 29, 2022
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone sold for $936
Gerald Gladstone
Untitled
10 x 10 x 10 in, 25.4 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm
plexiglass and metal illuminated sculpture
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500 CDN
Sold for: $936 CDN (premium included)
September 2013 - 2nd Session on Thursday, September 26, 2013
Untitled by Gerald Gladstone sold for $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
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 CDN
Sold for: $750 CDN (premium included)
March 2016 - 4th session on Thursday, March 31, 2016
Abstract by Gerald Gladstone sold for $250
Gerald Gladstone
Abstract
12 x 12 in, 30.5 x 30.5 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $300 - $500 CDN
Sold for: $250 CDN (premium included)
Contemporary Curated on Thursday, January 28, 2021