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...surrounded by imitators; there was a "look," a gestural rhetoric fatally easy to mimic, that they got from him and reduced to parody. (The artists who would really make something of his legacy were not in New York but in California: Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud.) Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns reacted against him, sons against the parent; but Rauschenberg's now classic Oedipal gesture of rubbing out a De Kooning drawing could not erase the obvious fact that the paint in his combine-pictures came straight out of the older Dutch master, drips, clots...
...these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight of S.I. Newhouse and a Scandinavian squillionaire driving a Jasper Johns to an unimaginable $17 million! See the De Kooning go for $20.7 million, and listen to the whole room applaud the bid as though they had just heard Pavarotti sing Vesti la Giubba...
...star picture at Christie's, a 1949 Jackson Pollock carrying a house estimate of $2 million to $3 million, scraped through at $1.7 million. And the star picture at Sotheby's the next night, an early Jasper Johns, was expected to bring $8 million but failed to sell at all. The contrast between this and the remembered glories of the $17 million Johns was so poignant that many bidders simply sat moping on their paddles for the rest of the night...
...understand what the fuss was all about," longtime Older Dominion Coach Eldon "Enigma" Jasper said to me this morning. "A kid can shoot the rock and plow the field in the same afternoon, I've always said...
...Ellison says Jasper is a naturally smart dog, but being at Harvard has made him smarter. "Absolutely Harvard has made Jasper more intelligent," she says, "but he hasn't been to any classes. He goes to my office in William James [Hall], though...