Interview of Leo Castelli conducted 1969 May 14-1973 June 8, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
Castelli speaks of his background; fleeing Europe, 1940-1941; his U.S. Army service; The Club; establishing his New York galleries; his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, and her success as an art dealer; galleries in the 1940s and 1950s; his staff; prints; commissioned works; exhibitions and sales of works by Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and others; collectors including Philip Cortelyou Johnson, Vera G. List, Peter Ludwig, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scull, and Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine. Castelli recalls Alfred H. Barr, Richard Bellamy, John Cage, René Drouin, Ivan C. Karp, and Alan Robert Solomon.
Biographical / Historical:
Leo Castelli (1907-1999) was an art dealer from New York, New York.
General:
Originally recorded as 8 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 15 digital wav files. Duration is 14 hr., 12 min.
Provenance:
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
Occupation:
Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
An interview of Antonio Homem, conducted 2016 March 14 and 23, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York.
Homem speaks of his early memories of art and his childhood in Portugal; going to museums in Paris and Spain; studying engineering at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland; working in a gallery in Zurich; reading Proust; discussion of reading, understanding, and misunderstanding art and literature; meeting Ileana and Michael Sonnabend in 1965; subsequently working at the Sonnabend gallery from 1968; job responsibilities; opening galleries in New York in 1970 and 1971; Showing new artists, like Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari; Willoughby Sharpe, Shunk and Kender and the Pier 18 Project; the differences between collectors and gallery visitors of New York and Paris; the influence of the creation of the Centre Pompidou; his thoughts on the evolution of artistic taste; Duchamp; Pop art; Arte Povera; and evolution of art market from the 1970s to the present. Homem also recalls Ileana Sonnabend in detail, Robert Rauschenburg, Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Guy, Marcel and Giselle Boulois, Dr. Peter Ludwig, Count Panza, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Antonio Homem is the director and owner of the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator of New York, New York.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Occupation:
Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
The Getty Murúa : essays on the making of Martín de Murúa's "Historia general del Piru," J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 / edited by Thomas B. F. Cummins and Barbara Anderson
China und die Hoffnung auf Glück : Sammlung Peter und Irene Ludwig / herausgegeben von Adele Schlombs ; mit wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen von Lothar von Falkenhausen ... [et al.]
Klangvorrat für die Nachwelt : neun chinesische Bronzeglocken der Sammlung Peter und Irene Ludwig : Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln / Lothar von Falkenhausen
Meisterwerke Chinesischer grafik / Eine Ausstellung der Ludwig Stiftung für kunst und Internationale Verständigung in Verbindung mit dem Ludwig Forum für International kunst Aachen und dem Grafit Museum Stiftung Schreiner Bad Steben = Zhongguo ban hua jia zuo / Deguo Ludeweixi guo ji yi shu ji jin hui, Yachen Shi Ludeweixi yan jiu hui, Batesiteben Shi Shilaina'er ban hua bo wu guan ji jin hui zhu ban
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Meisterwerke Chinesischer grafik / Eine Ausstellung der Ludwig Stiftung für kunst und Internationale verständigung in Verbindung mit dem Ludwig Forum für International kunst Aachen und dem Grafit Museum Stiftung Schreiner Bad Steben = 中国版画佳作 / 德国路德维希艺术基金会, 亚琛市路德维希硏究会, 巴特斯特本市施莱纳尔版画博物馆基金会主办
Zhongguo ban hua jia zuo
中国版画佳作
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Ludwig-Stiftung für Kunst und Internationale Verständigung, Aachen Search this
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Search this
Kunst aus Kuba : Sammlung Ludwig = Art from Cuba : the Ludwig Collection / Herausgeber, Ludwig Forum für Internationalen Kunst, Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung, Museum Ludwig im Russischen Museum
Title:
Art from Cuba
Iskusstro Kuby
Author:
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Search this
Zwischenquartier = interim quarters : das Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien im Künstlerhaus von 26. Oktober 2000 bis 11. März 2001 / Kurator/curator, Lóránd Hegyi
Katalog der Bildwerke und Objekte, Neuzugänge seit 1965 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum mit Teilen der Sammlung Ludwig / von Rainer Budde u. Evelyn Weiss mit Vorarbeiten von Johann Karl Schmidt
Picasso, the Ludwig collection : paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, prints / edited by Evelyn Weiss and Maria Teresa Ocaña ; with contributions by Pierre Daix ... [et al.]
Präkolumbische Kunst, Schenkung Ludwig : eine Ausstellung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums im Römisch-Germanischen-Museum vom 16. März bis 27. Mai 1985
