Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel

Author:Mary Gabriel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

By 1953, John and Tibor’s gallery was still not able to support itself. Tibor considered a good year to be one in which they hadn’t incurred an outright loss.73 The stipend from Dwight Ripley was not enough to keep the two men fed and the gallery running, and so they tried various schemes to bring in extra cash. They had opened a record shop on Lexington Avenue that quickly failed. Next, Tibor went into the import-export business but lost his shirt. Finally, he returned to his original métier, banking. He worked in finance during the day, and sat at the gallery at night and on weekends.74 The rest of the time, John held sway with the help of painters he corralled into watching the shop while he visited galleries, lunched with collectors, drank with critics, and generally buzzed around town promoting his artists, whom he loved far more than he loved himself.75 Writing to Larry, he said,

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