The art business took over a neighborhood on the Far West Side of Manhattan previously known as Gasoline Alley. Then the city turned the area into a ‘monument to real estate developers.’
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.
On his vast estate in southern France and in two new U.S. exhibitions, the German-born artist conjures a world that hovers in the penumbra between life and death.