Richard L. Feigen

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Richard L. Feigen
BornAugust 8, 1930
Chicago, Illinois
DiedJanuary 29, 2021(2021-01-29) (aged 90)
Mount Kisco, New York
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGallery Owner
Spouse(s)Sandra Elizabeth Canning Walker

Margaret (Peggy) Langan-Culver

Isabelle Harnoncourt Wisowaty

Richard Lee Feigen (August 8, 1930 – January 29, 2021) was an American gallery owner.[1]

Biography[]

Feigen earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1952[2] and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University in 1954. He opened his first gallery on Astor Street in Chicago in 1957[3] and displayed impressionist and surrealist artists from the 20th Century, such as George Grosz, Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Cornell, James Rosenquist, and Ray Johnson. He opened a second gallery in New York City in 1962 and displayed works from Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, and Constantin Brâncuși. Throughout his career, Feigen sold paintings to the likes of the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery, and the National Gallery of Art.

Feigen was cast as a version of himself in Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street.[3]

Feigen was married three times: to Sandra Elizabeth Canning Walker in 1966,[4] to Margaret (Peggy) Langan-Culver in 1998,[5] and to Isabelle Harnoncourt Wisowaty in 2007.[3]

Richard L. Feigen died in Mount Kisco, New York on January 29, 2021 at the age of 90.[6]

Books[]

  • Dubuffet and the Anticulture. Exh. cat. 1969–1970 New York.
  • Tales from the Art Crypt: The Painters, the Museums, the Curators, the Collectors, the Auctions, the Art. New York: Knopf, 2000. ISBN 9780394571690

References[]

  1. ^ "Feigen, Richard 1930- (Richard L. Feigen)". encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "Richard Feigen (1930–2021)". Artforum. January 31, 2021. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Genzlinger, Neil (February 7, 2021). "Richard Feigen, 90, Dealer and Gallerist Who Boosted Masters and Young Artists". New York Times. 170 (58962). p. 23. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
  4. ^ "Richard Feigen Weds Mrs. Sandra Walker (Published 1966)". New York Times. February 24, 1966. p. 31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
  5. ^ Jeromack, Paul (September 23, 1998). "Artnet News". Artnet. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
  6. ^ Kinsella, Eileen (February 1, 2021). "Art Luminaries Pay Tribute to Richard Feigen, the 'Collector in Dealer's Clothes' Revered for Championing Old and New Masters Alike". Artnet News.

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