"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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