• Leo Castelli (né Krausz; September 4, 1907 – August 21, 1999) was an Italian-American art dealer who originated the contemporary art gallery system. His...
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    but actually industrial painting". His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. Whaam!, Drowning Girl, and Look Mickey proved...
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    Marianna Pineda, Arthur Polonsky and Karl Zerbe. In 2007, gallery owner Leo Castelli's family donated his papers to the Archives. It took three years to organize...
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    Beck). In November 1964, Warhol's first Flowers series exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. In May 1965, his second Flowers series, which had...
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    visiting Rauschenberg's studio, the gallery owner Leo Castelli asked to see Johns's art. As Castelli recalled: “So we went down. It was just the floor...
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  • Sachs. Artist Chuck Close claimed to have purchased the lithograph from Leo Castelli on a visit to New York in 1963 for $10 ($100 in 2023 dollars). Close...
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  • Lichtenstein's most important paintings. Whaam! was first exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City in 1963, and purchased by the Tate Gallery,...
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  • Mickey Mouse in it, related stylistically to the de Kooning Women". When Leo Castelli saw both Lichtenstein's and Warhol's large comic strip-based works, he...
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  • 1964 exhibition of the nine-panel Discourses on Commodus (1963) at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York was panned by artist and writer Donald Judd who said...
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    ideas. Serra's first U.S. solo exhibition[citation needed] was at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York City in 1969. There he exhibited ten lead Prop Pieces...
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  • Gallery showed R. Indiana and Warhol (in his first New York show). The Leo Castelli Gallery presented Rauschenberg, Johns, and Lichtenstein. Martha Jackson...
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    twist. An award-winning writer from Sartre: 1905-1980 to Leo & His Circle: the Life of Leo Castelli (Prix ArtCurial 2010) and A Foreigner Called Picasso (Prix...
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    singer and performance artist Meredith Monk and signed with the dealer Leo Castelli. Nauman moved from Northern California to Pasadena in 1969. In 1979,...
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  • displayed at a sold-out exhibition of cartoon pictures at Castelli's eponymous Leo Castelli Gallery, ending the possibility of Warhol exhibiting his own...
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    bought a loft in New York on West Broadway opposite the Leo Castelli Gallery. It was Castelli who introduced Gagosian to Charles Saatchi and Samuel Newhouse...
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  • Elizabeth did not sit for or commission. Reigning Queens was shown at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City from September 1985 to October 1985. Warhol...
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  • participated in the Ninth Street Show, a famous exhibition curated by Leo Castelli on East Ninth Street in New York City in 1951. Besides the painters and...
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  • Gallery in the early 1960s. In the later part of the 1960s, he showed with Leo Castelli. Although he exhibited with optical artists in 1965, by 1966 he had moved...
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    Combines (1954–1964). Leo Castelli mounted a solo exhibition of Rauschenberg's Combines in 1958. The only sale was an acquisition by Castelli himself of Bed...
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  • gallery with them. The show Warhol refers to is his April 1966 show at the Leo Castelli Gallery, which consisted only of Cow Wallpaper in one room, and a second...
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    residence in New York City, and she showed painting and sculpture at Leo Castelli Gallery, Victoria Munroe Gallery, and in Connecticut. Miller also studied...
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    art by living artists. This approach has been called the "Castelli Method" after Leo Castelli, whose success was attributed to his active involvement in...
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  • me. — Lichtenstein When Lichtenstein had his first solo show at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City in February 1962, it sold out before the opening...
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  • timely because Lichtenstein had his first exhibition in New York City at Leo Castelli Gallery that year, making the painting aspirational in an ironic way...
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  • Robert Hughes, Clement Greenberg, and Harold Rosenberg, art dealers Leo Castelli, and David Whitney, whose gallery was across the street, writers Lillian...
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  • its inaugural art exhibition, featuring Jasper Johns's prints from the Leo Castelli Collection, at the Simmons Visual Arts Center in March 1991. This exhibition...
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    Mulas met several American artists, art critics, and the art dealer Leo Castelli. This meeting led to his travel to New York City and his documentation...
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  • his romance comics-based works. Lichtenstein's first solo show at The Leo Castelli Gallery in February 1962 sold out before opening. Engagement Ring sold...
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    represented by well-known galleries such as the Tony Shafrazi Gallery and the Leo Castelli Gallery. Since his death, has been featured in over 150 exhibitions around...
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    model for contemporary galleries was set by Leo Castelli. Rather than simply being the broker for sales, Castelli became actively involved in the discovery...
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