Ethel Scull (born Ethel Redner ); 1921 , New York - 2001 ) is an American art collector best known for her “world-famous collection of pop art and minimalism”, which she collected with her husband Robert Skull .
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Content
- 1 Early biography
- 2 Marriage
- 3 Images in art
- 4 Death
- 5 notes
Early biography
Ethel Redner was born in 1921 in the Bronx , in the city of New York . She was the daughter of Ben Redner, the owner of a successful taxi company, which she and Robert Skull later renamed the “ Scull's Angels ”. She led a privileged life, and also studied the art of advertising at the Parsons School of Design [1] .
Marriage
Ethel Redner married Robert Skull , the couple had three sons: Jonathan, Stephen and Adam [2] . Robert Skull inherited a share in the taxi company of his father Ethel after he decided to leave the business due to his age. As a result of the successful taxi business, the couple became rich, which allowed them to express themselves on the artistic stage of New York, collecting abstract and modern art. They used the proceeds from their first auction in 1965 to create the Robert and Ethel Skull Foundation, whose main goal was to support young artists by purchasing their works of art, paying rent and other expenses for their activities. Soon, the couple began to be criticized mainly because of their auctions, where sometimes works of art were sold at a triple price compared to the one they paid themselves. They filed for divorce in 1975, the story of which ended only in 1986, after the death of Robert Skull.
Images in Art
Ethel Skull was depicted in the painting Ethel Skull 36 times , created in 1963 by American artist Andy Warhol in the style of pop art . Today this work is stored in the collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art [3] . She became the first commissioned painting by Warhol [4] [5] [6] . She represented 36 portraits of Ethel Scull in various poses [7] , arranged in four rows and nine columns [8] . This work is jointly owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art [4] .
Another famous order made by Scull was a sculptural portrait created by George Seagal , titled “Portrait of Robert and Ethel Scull”. Both spouses were depicted in the form of gypsum sculptures: Ethel in dark glasses sat in a Victorian armchair, and Robert Skull stood behind her and the armchair. Now this work of art is in the collection of the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art ( Nagoya , Japan) [9] [10] .
Death
Ethel Scull died in 2001 of a heart attack in a nursing home in Manhattan (New York), where she got after a stroke [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Ethel Scull, a Patron of Pop and Minimal Art, Dies at 79 , New York Times (September 1, 2001). Date of appeal September 20, 2019.
- ↑ Glueck, Grace (3 January 1986). "ROBERT SCULL, PROMINENT COLLECTOR OF POP ART." New york times
- ↑ Ethel Scull 36 Times . Metropolitan Museum of Art . Date of appeal September 20, 2019.
- ↑ Feinstein, Roni The Scull Collection . Art in America (June 4, 2010). Date of appeal September 20, 2019.
- ↑ Court painter to the rich and famous , The New Zealand Herald - via HighBeam Research (subscription required) , APN News & Media (April 3, 2009). Archived June 11, 2014. Date of appeal September 20, 2019.
- ↑ Grace Glueck . Ethel Scull, a Patron of Pop and Minimal Art, Dies at 79 , The New York Times (September 1, 2001). Date of appeal September 20, 2019.
- ↑ Girard, Bartholomé . Warhol, en couleur et argenté , International French Radio (March 18, 2009). Date of appeal September 20, 2019.
- ↑ ［ID: 6322］ Portrait of Robert and Ethel Scull ： Detail | The Collection | Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art . Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art - The Collection . Date of appeal September 20, 2019.
- ↑ The Casting of Ethel Scull., TIME Magazine; Vol. 87 Issue 13, p77, 1p (1966).