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...another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox is Scavenger-Sculptress Louise Nevelson...
...Nevelson sculptures (they might more accurately be called assemblages) are displayed in museums all over the world, fetch from $500 (for a small box of surprises) to $25,000 for a whole flabbergasting wall. This week Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery acquired Nevelson's Royal Game from Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery. Price for the 5-ft. by 4-ft. work, which is the gift of Museum President Seymour H. Knox: $6,000. Last month Nevelson won the $3,000 grand prize in the first Sculpture International of the Torcuato Di Telia Institute's Center...
Pizzeria Studio. Nevelson "walls"' might go nicely in certain modern commercial structures, but so far she has refused requests to do office-building lobbies. "Someone once told me, 'Think how many people would see your work in an office building: 100,000 a day.' And I said, look, dear, I am not interested, because those 100,000 people are blind...
...Atheneum exhibition should do away with one outworn illusion: that abstract artists are abstract because they cannot paint images. Esteban Vicente's portrait of his little daughter and the early sculptured heads by Sculptors Reuben Nakian and Louise Nevelson prove that these artists could have successfully stuck to representation had they chosen to. Other early works are not so reassuring. Mark Rothko's floating rectangles, controversial though they are, at least have an air of mystery, and many admirers have fallen under their spell. Had Rothko stuck to realism, as in his Two Women in a Window...
...York Dealer Martha Jackson pays Sculptress Louise Nevelson and Spanish Painter Antonio Tapies $20,000 a year in return for U.S. representation of their work. She also has an arrangement with three other galleries in Europe on behalf of a European abstractionist. Each dealer pays him $16,000 for the privilege of maintaining a monopoly on him. His minimum guarantee from the deal: $64,000 a year...