I have a very large — some would say “extensive” — collection of New York School art, mostly because I was a member of that august group of collectively arty maniacs, and I say that not only because of the massive psychotherapeutic bills they ran up, but because they were mostly free of the slavish temperament of the average New Yorker.
You’ll find a whole lot more art and artists in New York City than you’ll find in the whole rest of the country, with the possible exception of Chicago, San Francisco and of course, Las Vegas.
So where would you be likeliest to SELL 75 year old art that dates back to a long-forgotten era of modern painting, when modernism was new and being roundly rejected by the hoi-polloi and the horses they rode in on.
In short, there was never a good time to be an artist in America.
I know what you’re thinking, but Warhol was a marketeer, not an artist, and his offspring benefit greatly from his marketing ways.
If you have a local gallery that would appreciate the New York School artists, here’s a PARTIAL list of the artists I have available, starting with a million-dollar offering of the rarest deKooning print ever, “The Clam-Digger”.
- Samuel M. Adler
- Milton Avery
- George Biddle
- Isabel Bishop
- Dorothy Block
- Louis Bosa
- Adolf Dehn
- Julio de Diego
- T. Lux Feininger
- Antonio Frasconi
- Chaim Gross
- Lena Gurr
- Robert Gwathmey
- Joseph Hirsch
- Hans Hoffman
- Gerrit Hondius
- Betty Kathe
- Leonard Lionni
- Gwen Lux
- Reginald Marsh
- Fletcher Martin
- George L.K. Morris
- Babette New
- Elias Newman
- George S. Ratkai
- Helen Ratkai
- Anton Refrigier
- Georges Schreiber
- Ben Shan
- Sidney Simon
- Raphael Soyer
- Harry Sternberg
- Stuyvesant van Veen
- Marcel Vertes
- Max Weber
- Sol Wilson
… and many, many more, ranging in price all the way from $1 starting bid on my eBay auctions, all the way up the scale.
I was a very active member of this group of artists and knew them well, and studied with some of them, painted with some of them, and showed with some.
I know their art, and I know the market for their art. I have entire showrooms full of New York School art and artists, and I can fill any gallery with enough to make a million bucks out of the show, if they have the customers.
If not, no amount of publicity will help.
A gallery full of hungry looky-loos is not worth the effort and certainly not worth the price of the finger-food and champagne caterer you have to hire so you can spend time with clients.
It’s a hard world out there. Let’s beat the odds together.
Properly marketed, these pieces could open the door to art marketing for some who don’t have the skills or finances to support the effort.
I’m happy to help you plan it out, and if my collection can be of any service in that arena, I’m delighted to accommodate any way I can.
Oops, gotta go, run to breakfast & back for ICW at 6:30.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby