Word: kootz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, with his latest show at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery, Soulages succeeded in delivering a massive K.O. One painting was sold even before it was up on the gallery walls. Six more were sold on opening day at from $1,500 to $4,500. By week's end, with orders telephoned in from California and Chicago and two museums lined up to buy, the gallery was able to announce: "There are 13 pictures in the show. We have sold...
...Hans Hofmann, 75, was trained as an academic painter in Germany, later chummed with Paris' cubists. He made his name as a teacher, opened his own art school in Manhattan in 1934. Five years later he produced Red Trickle, which Dealer Sam Kootz calls the first application of the drip technique to painting. His art and thought have done as much as any man's to shape today's abstract expressionism, though never did an elderly, experienced and serious-minded teacher manage to seem so untaught...
...reigning darling of advance-guard art, has no trouble selling (at prices ranging from $600 to $3,400) pictures that take only from a few minutes to a few hours to paint. Last week a new exhibition of Mathieu's paintings was on view at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery, and proved him to be one of the most forceful practitioners of the rock 'em, sock 'em school of abstract...
...season, Manhattan averages at least one first-rate art show (as against dozens of dull ones) every week. Last week's most exciting show fell to the Kootz Gallery, which hung ten weird canvases by a controversial Frenchman named Georges Mathieu. The exhibition was almost bound to draw as many boos as bouquets, but none could deny its forcefulness...