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How Robert Scull (then MoMA) Landed Rosenquist’s F-111

April 5, 2017 by Marion Maneker

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The Master, Judd Tully, reminds us of his tenure in the art market with this post on his personal website recalling the sale of James Rosenquist’s F-111 during the second Scull sale in 1986. There he spoke with Rosenquist’s dealer, Leo Castelli who gave some of the details of the original sale:

“I didn’t expect it to get that much. It is a very cumbersome painting.” Recalling his showing of the work in 1965, he said, “It went all around the gallery. Sixty thousand was the asking price, but Scull paid $ 45,000 [with a discount]. It was a very brave thing for Scull to do. He almost deserved to have it for nothing.”

If you’re wondering why Scull got a discount, Tully has some answers:Continue Reading

James Rosenquist’s “finger-in-your-face and finger-in-the-pie irony”

April 1, 2017 by Marion Maneker

 

rosenquist_03_bodyJerry Saltz’s quick estimation of James Rosenquist’s importance as a painter tries to capture the “double-edged finger-in-your-face and finger-in-the-pie irony” of American Pop art.

In a sensational stylistic turn-around and the equivalent of inventing fire Rosenquist went from his generic non-representational work and in one try made the seven-by-seven foot black and white photographically-based realist painting, Zone. Even today you can see how it was a new visual-painterly being on earth. A fragmented painted collage of what looks like a woman from advertising and a cut-up grid of some drips or liquid. Zone looks absolutely like advertising and at the same time it is not advertising. Thus it is neither a known idea of advertising or of painting. Zone becomes what Donald Judd referred to as a specific object – it is neither one thing or another, but something new. Whatever he did, Rosenquist work appeared brand new back then as it does now. He influenced several generations of artists who looked to popular culture and employed other-than-art techniques.

In Remembrance of James Rosenquist: 1933 — 2017 (New York Magazine)

James Rosenquist Has Died at 83

April 1, 2017 by Marion Maneker

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The Miami Herald has the announcement of James Rosenquist’s death:

James Rosenquist, a leading figure of the Pop Art movement whose influential work spanned the globe from New York to Miami to Europe, died late Friday at his home in New York City, according to a close family friend in South Florida.

James Rosenquist dies at 83 in his New York home (Miami Herald)

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