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...The next two years were spent finding premises and convincing the artists he wished to represent; he offered then unknown artists a monthly stipend — “I was probably the first to do it.”...
...The day sale has paintings by Warhol, a characteristically blue Yves Klein table and an Anthony Caro bronze....
...The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro, Bodley Head, RRP£35/Vintage, RRP$26 First published in 1974 but only now appearing in the UK, this slab of a book is a fine monument...
...He typifies the obscure hobbyist visionary whom Gioni obsessively resurrects, neglecting most recent global names in favour of unknown creators of quirky personal libraries, museums of the mind, archives...
...Such cases are rare, but for both the artist and the patron, a commissioned artwork is always a leap into the unknown. Models can only give an idea, and scaled up, a piece may look very different....
...Caro’s extraordinarily ambitious series of sculptures and architectural features was finally unveiled in 2008....
...The attribution of paintings from the past can make a difference of millions, and the discovery of even a few previously unknown lines doodled or daubed by the hand of a master is news....
...The dinner parties where ripe game was served while guests waited in a mixture of terror and awe for Thatcher to drop in - described so well by Hollinghurst - are unknown to Labour, whose ministers and MPs...
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