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...Glimcher recalls literally having to beg his friends and collectors to buy the works. Warhols were going for $250. It was the very underappreciation of pop art, however, that allowed Glimcher to make such enormous strides. “It was a great time,” he said, “You could get anything to show you wanted to because there were only about 25 serious collectors in the United States...
...hadn’t sold anything, it would have been a catastrophe,” said Glimcher, laughing. Their largesse is support of her work, however, won them her friendship and loyalty, which proved extremely important to the future of the gallery. When it moved to New York in 1963, Nevelson joined with Pace, influencing other prominent artists to join as well...
When Pace approached the Picasso family about making an exhibit around the artist’s very last works, they were “appalled––the art was regarded as the babblings of an old man,” according to Glimcher. He believed strongly in their merit, however, and not only did every piece sell, but the exhibition changed critical opinion about Picasso’s last period. “It was great satisfaction to have brought the attention of the art world to something that I thought they had neglected...
...watershed moment,” Glimcher said. “I don’t know whether for good or for bad, but it was tremendous. It made the front page of the New York Times. Art had entered a new league...
...Glimcher drove up the astronomical sum on scruples alone––he could not bear to see what he saw as an archetypally American painting go to Germany, as it would have, had not he rallied four patrons to contribute a quarter each of the price to keep it in the States...