Word: marlborough
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That candidate appears to be Francis Kenneth Lloyd, founder of Marlborough Gallery Inc. and the most powerful international art dealer to have emerged since World War II (TIME, June...
After Abstract Expressionist Painter Mark Rothko opened his veins in his Manhattan studio four years ago, his estate of 798 paintings was divided between his two children and a foundation for struggling older artists. His dealer was Marlborough. Marlborough immediately signed a contract with the estate's executors (one of whom was Marlborough Treasurer-Secretary Bernard Reis) to buy 100 choice Rothkos outright for $1.8 million, payable without interest over twelve years-an effective average price of $13,000 apiece at a time when, the plaintiffs allege, Rothkos were going on the open market for between...
...making a decision is itself a decision. The parliamentary process is essentially a system of delay and deliberation. So, for that matter, is the creation of a great painting, or an entree, or a book, or a building like Blenheim Palace, which took the Duke of Marlborough's architects and laborers 15 years to construct. In the process, the design can mellow and marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance. As T.H. White, author of Sword in the Stone, once wrote, time "is not meant to be devoured in an hour...
Donald McKinney, president of the Marlborough Gallery in New York and the representative of the Pollock estate, said through his secretary that he would not give a value for the paintings because "he had not seen them in many years...
Resistant Labyrinth. Though most are content, not all the Marlborough artists have stayed with Lloyd. Italian Sculptor Gio Pomodoro broke away "because, in five years, Mr. Lloyd had set foot in my studio twice. I don't like that kind of rapport, abstract and unconnected with any of my problems...