Search results
People also ask
How much did Andy Warhol pay Irving Blum?
What did Irving Blum do for a living?
Who gave Andy Warhol his first show?
How did Blum convince Warhol to show his cans in California?
Mar 7, 2022 · It was $1,500. I took it and that was that.”. Whilst the film would go on to gross “well over a million dollars” (eventually raking in $1.5million) and become Meyer’s first commercially successful film as a director, the $1,500 was what Irving accepted.
In the end, Blum bought back the few works sold, picking up on Warhol’s desire to keep all the pieces of the series intact as one set, and offered to pay him $1000 for the whole lot. Warhol accepted, with payments in the form of $100 a month installments.
Nov 4, 2013 · Dennis Hopper. Irving Blum was one of L.A.’s first successful contemporary art dealers. In 1962, Blum’s Ferus Gallery was the first commercial gallery to show Andy Warhol and went on to ...
Aug 11, 2011 · Blum sold six of the 20-by-16-inch Warhol canvases for $100 each. Realizing the work was more significant if the pieces were kept together, he later bought back the ones he sold. He then...
Feb 2, 2018 · Blum sent Warhol $100 a month for 10 months to pay him for the 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans. And for thirty-four years later the art dealer kept his promise to Warhol that the series would stay together.
Oct 23, 2020 · Irving Blum, Ferus Gallery director, during Andy Warhol’s first-ever commercial gallery exhibit in July 1962 at 723 N. La Cienega Blvd. (in the unincorporated West Hollywood community). (Photo by William Claxton. Courtesy of Demont Photo Management LLC)[/caption] Art historians say that Los Angeles came of age as an art city by the early 1960s. As
Mar 13, 2018 · He bought back the few he’d sold, and agreed to pay Warhol —who was delighted, as the works had been conceived of as a set — $1000 over 10 months for all 32 works. After Warhol's death, Blum would eventually sell the set to New York's Museum of Modern Art for upwards of $15 million.
