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Blum operated the Irving Blum Gallery until his departure for New York City in 1972 where in partnership with Joseph Helman he opened the BlumHelman Gallery; he returned full-time to Los Angeles in 1998 as a private dealer. [13]
Sep 4, 2023 · Blum was the dealer who introduced the West Coast to Pop Art and Lichtenstein’s works in the 1960s. Now he’s showing his friend’s rarely seen sculptures.
Shirley Neilsen Blum, also known as Shirley Hopps (born 14 October 1932) is an American art historian, author, gallerist, and professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Purchase (1970–1989). She specializes in Northern Renaissance art, early Netherlandish art, and modern art.
Lichtenstein showed with the famous dealer Castelli, whom Blum sought to emulate when in 1958 he bought the artist Edward Kienholz’s share of the Ferus Gallery on North La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles for $500.
Blum operated the Irving Blum Gallery until his departure for New York City in 1972 where in partnership with Joseph Helman he opened the Blum Helman Gallery; he returned full-time to Los Angeles in 1998 as a private dealer.
Nov 4, 2013 · 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 promote Ed Ruscha...
Irving Blum was the man who brought Pop Art and its leading figure, Andy Warhol, to the West Coast. As an early indication of his savvy business mind, Irving saw what was developing in New York’s art world, its post-war buying and selling, as something that could be easily transposed to LA.
