Leo castelli biography book
Leo castelli
Leo the Lion - The New Yorker.
Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli
Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America&#x;s most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed Sartre: A Life (an intimate portrait of the man that possesses all the detail and resonance of fiction &#x;Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), recounts his incalculably influential and astonishing life in Leo and His Circle.
After emigrating to New York in , Castelli would not open a gallery for sixteen years, when he had reached the age of fifty.
Leo castelli biography book
But as the first to exhibit the then-unknown Jasper Johns, Castelli emerged as a tastemaker overnight and fast came to champion a virtual Who&#x;s Who of twentieth-century masters: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Twombly, to name a few.
The secret of Leo&#x;s success? Personal devotion to the artists, his heroes : by putting young talents on stipend and seeking placement in the ideal collection rather than with the