"Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection" Exhibition
Acquavella Galleries
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Robert and Ethel Scull were to art collectors of the 1960s what Andy Warhol was to the artists. Pioneer collectors of Pop art (known as the Mom and Pop of Pop), they were everywhere in the 1960s, a constant presence on the New York social scene.
The Sculls began acquiring major works by leading Abstract Expressionist artists in the mid-1950s (among them, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman) and assembled a distinguished collection of New York School paintings. Motivated by a taste for the new, they soon moved on, becoming the major collectors of Pop art and the first owners of many works now considered masterpieces including James Rosenquist's monumental F-III, now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art; Andy Warhol's 200 One Dollar Bills, which sold this last November for $43.8 million; Police Gazette, 1955, by Willem de Kooning; the iconic Ethel Scull 36 Times, Andy Warhol's first commissioned portrait; and Jasper Johns' Map, a gift from the Sculls to the Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition comprises paintings, sculpture, and drawings. In all, forty-four works by twenty-three art.
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Schedule
from April 13, 2010 to May 27, 2010
Artist(s)
Lee Bontecou, John Chamberlain, William Crozier, Michael Heizer, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Walter De Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, Myron Stout, Mark di Suvero, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman, Peter Young