Word: marlborough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than real market value on second-rate Chagalls and Modiglianis, and giving the still embryonic Tokyo market an estimated gross of $1 billion a year on paintings alone. No wonder, then, that Tokyo has attracted a number of big Western dealers, including the most formidable of all-Marlborough Fine...
Whereas most of Tokyo's 500 galleries are one-room affairs, Marlborough, typically, is preparing to open in a palatial house in the fashionable Tokyo district of Hiroo. Massively funded-its Japanese stockholders include the heads of Sony and Panasonic-Marlborough-Torii Ltd. seems prepared, as its Japanese president, former Adman Tatsuya Torii, put it, to "bring internationalism to the Tokyo art market once and for all." This will not make the intruder popular. But then, Marlborough has never made a virtue of popularity. It is -as exasperated rival dealers are wont to point out-the General Motors...
Less a gallery than a multinational corporation, Marlborough in 1969 grossed $11 million from sales, and claims that for 1973 that figure will have increased to $25 million. The corporate style is present everywhere...
...west of London. Mark's grandfather was an equerry to King George VI. His father, Peter Phillips, is a director of T. Wall & Sons, a large produce firm that specializes in pork sausages and ice cream (and which, incidentally, is an official purveyor to the Queen). Mark attended Marlborough College, one of Britain's best public (meaning private) schools, before entering the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Though he was an all-round athlete at school, his favorite sport is the same as Anne's-horse-riding...
...stabilize reality before painting it. But what if drawing is not about definitions, what if it chooses to study the instabilities of perception? Such is the question hidden in the work of a masterfully gifted Israeli artist named Avigdor Arikha, whose exhibition of ink drawings-seen last year at Marlborough Galleries in Manhattan-is now on show in Fort Worth...