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...sent to Europe a show of American abstract expressionist paintings that the sponsors consider, at last, the counterpart of the 1913 show. The abstract expressionists have made their impact on the U.S. art world (some collectors are willing to pay up to $30.000 for a drip painting by Jackson Pollock) and have already stirred up interest abroad (some European collectors and gallery owners are now shopping in Manhattan for U.S. moderns). But this summer is the first time Europe has had a wholesale view of what the U.S. abstractionists have to offer. For the story of the excitement, controversy...
...Table Number Seven, the shy, mal-adjusted spinster daughter of a domineering mother is traumatically affected by the disclosure that Major Pollock, her one friend, not only is not a major at all but also has a penchant for taking manual liberties with strange women in movie theatres...
...workers appeared before the West German embassy on Moscow's Bolshoi Gruzinskaya Street and began to hurl stones, chunks of concrete and bottles of purple ink. By the time they dispersed two hours later, the ink-stained façade of the embassy looked like a huge Jackson Pollock canvas, and more than 40 large windows lay in splinters. A similar mob had already bespattered the Danish embassy...
Perhaps most in demand is the work of Jackson Pollock, whose paintings reached a top price of $10,000 before his death two years ago. Major Pollock canvases are now bringing up to $30,000 each. But the boom is by no means all Pollock. Among the sellout shows this year: Mark Rothko (top price $5,000), Hans Hofmann (top $7,500), Philip Guston (top $4,000), and William Baziotes, whose recent show sold out at $3,500 top even before it opened. Adolph Gottlieb's show sold eight of ten (top $4,000), and Sculptor Seymour Lipton...
Among the buyers flocking to Manhattan galleries is a new and growing breed: European dealers and collectors bent on buying U.S. moderns. In recent months London's venerable Arthur Tooth & Sons has bought works of Pollock, Clyfford Still, Guston and Baziotes. Rome's Tartaruga gallery picked up paintings by James Brooks, Ad Reinhardt, Donati, Marca-Relli, Rothko and Franz Kline. Still others have been shipped to Paris...