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Apr 26, 2017 · Scull, a New York taxicab impresario and passionate collector of Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art, sold 50 of his best paintings at Sotheby Parke Bernet on October 18, 1973, in an auction that “heralded the beginning of a new era in the art world: a hyper-commercialized art market focused on promoting and selling contemporary art,” according t...
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Despite his humble beginnings as a child of Russian immigrants, Robert Scull became wildly successful by operating a New York City taxi fleet which he had inherited from his wife, Ethel’s, father. The lucrative business allowed Robert and Ethel Scull to enjoy a life of glamorous parties and pursue their passion for collecting art. The couple befrie...
Though Pop Art had become widely recognized by the 70s, few people knew how to access the insular New York art world. The community had been tightly knit, with collectors often buying directly from artists or a handful of well-respected dealers. Robert Scull realized that he could make a profit and simultaneously use the publicity of an auction to ...
Many of the works auctioned that October went on to have well documented futures. Among them, Willem de Kooning’s Police Gazette, 1955, bought for $180,000 at the sale changed hands between several notable collectors; at some point the renowned gallerist Bill Acquavella acquired it for $2.2 million, then resold eventually to hotel mogul, Steve Wynn...
Jul 31, 2018 · Castelli made an arrangement with Sonnabend to stage shows of work by Johns, Rauschenberg, Stella, and other Castelli artists, and the terms on which Castelli consigned the work initially appeared to favor Sonnabend over her ex-husband.
Robert Scull (1915–January 1, 1986) was an American art collector, best known for his "world-famous collection of Pop and Minimal art". [1] Born in New York to Russian immigrant parents, Scull dropped out of high school and had various jobs until his wife inherited a share of a taxi business.
Dec 2, 2007 · Ileana Sonnabend, the legendary gallery owner who died recently at the age of 92, had an eye for the art that nobody else wanted. Their loss. Leslie Camhi reports.
Oct 22, 2021 · Culture. How an unapologetically vulgar collector horrified fellow Jews — and revolutionized the art world. Jasper Johns’ ‘Flag’ The Sculls were major collectors of the work of Johns, whose...
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Dec 5, 2023 · Ethel Scull arrived to the evening sale wearing a Halston gown customised with the logo of the family’s taxi company, Scull’s Angels, simultaneously burnishing the brand and trolling the taxi...
