Word: selz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pick the painters, the Modern Museum's Peter Selz two years ago made a trip to Warsaw. Since there are no private art galleries in Poland and no private collectors, Selz made the rounds of artists' studios, as well as the museums, libraries and courthouses where the state hangs the art it buys directly from the artist. When the time came to select the paintings, Selz ran into a snag: the government overextended its helpfulness by wanting to exercise final authority on what...
Returning last year, Selz hoped the officialdom would surrender the veto, but was disappointed. Then he got a bright idea. Selz simply asked two galleries in France and five in the U.S. to import the works he wanted. "As simple as importing Polish hams," he said. The rest of the display he gathered from a variety of shrewd U.S. collectors, including Pittsburgh's G. David Thompson. Manhattan's Joseph Hirshhorn, and the world's Joe Alsop, who bought early in the rising Polish art market...