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Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America’s most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed <i>Sartre: A Life</i> (“an intimate portrait of the man that possesses all the detail and resonance of fiction”—Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i>), recounts his incalculably influential and astonishing life in <i>Leo and His Circle</i>. <p>After emigrating to New York in 1941, Castelli would not open a gallery for sixteen years, when he had reached the age of fifty. But as the first to exhibit the then-unknown Jasper Johns, Castelli emerged as a tastemaker overnight and fast came to champion a virtual Who’s Who of twentieth-century masters: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Twombly, to name a few. The secret of Leo’s success? Personal devotion to the artists, his “heroes”: by putting young talents on stipend and seeking placement in the ideal collection rather than with the top bidder, he transformed the way business was done, multiplying the capital, both cultural and financial, of those he represented. His enterprise, which by 1980 had expanded to an impressive network of satellite galleries in Europe and three locations in New York, th

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Author

Annie Cohen-Solal

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307593047

Category

art

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.71 / 5 (102 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14