Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection

Weisman, Richard; Patricia Shea (editor) ; Peter Beard; Anthony Haden-Guest

ISBN 10: 0972787208 / ISBN 13: 9780972787208

Published by Atelier Press, 2003

About this Item

Inscribed "To Antonia My Very Best Wishes Richard Weisman 9-22-2003". Richard Weisman was a high profile businessman, philanthropist, and art collector. Weisman's prescient eye allowed him to assemble a remarkable collection of masterworks that depict some of the 20th century's most important Pop icons and iconography. For Weisman, art represented an opportunity to explore the vast scope of human creativity, free from all constraints. Weisman began a lifetime of collecting with the purchase of his first piece of art: Roberto Matta's 1955 oil on canvas Early Urge. In the years that followed, Weisman steadily assembled not only an exceptional grouping of masterworks, but also a remarkable circle of friends. Weisman became renowned for entertaining athletes, actors, and artists at his homes with gatherings that welcomed a coterie of creatives from Peter Beard, Roy Lichtenstein, and Barnett Newman to Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Seller Inventory # SKU2010030401

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection
• Publisher: Atelier Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972787208
• ISBN 13: 9780972787208
• Binding: Hard cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket
• Signed: Signed by Significant Other
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art