Picasso's Dealers in the United States: Samuel M. Kootz (1898–1982), Vérane Tasseau
by Vérane Tasseau
Summary
- >> For a first exhibition in New York...
- >> In a difficult environment, challenge for art dealers
- >> Kootz, a controversial personality and a strategy in the American artists’ service
- >> 9 paintings chosen with precision
- >> Nine Picasso flown from Paris by the Kootz Gallery New York
- >> 1947, second new yorkish exhibition
- >> A major challenge : representing Picasso
- >> Professional reconciliation with Kahnweiler and the difficulties of Kootz
- >> Two art dealers, two very different methods
- >> For Picasso, an adventure of transmission
Although legend would have it that the unstoppable, ambitious New York dealer Samuel Kootz briefly used Picasso to promote young American artists during the shift of the art capital from Paris to New York after the Second World War, the relationship between the two men is more complex than it appears and deserves closer attention.