Sylvio Perlstein, legendary art collector and patron, passed away, age
Legendary art collector, patron and Impresario, Sylvio Perlstein died Wednesday.
Hauser & Wirth confirmed the news in an Instagram post, saying Perlstein “formed one of the most important art series of the past century.”
In 2018, Hauser & Wirth presented 380 pieces from the Perlstein series at locations in Chelsea and Hong Kong. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection emphasizes his “bold, intuitive way of collecting and close connection with the artist”.
Hauser & Wirth also noted in its Instagram post that Perlstein once said: “I’m passionate about things that make me uneasy, which fascinates me and makes me uncomfortable.”
Exhibitions are special themes New York Timeswhich noted its expanding inclusion of “Dada and Surrealism (Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dora Maar, René Magritte, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle); American minimum and post-minimalism (Donald Judd, Ad Reinhardt, Brice Marden, Fred Sandback); and land art (Richard Long, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Gordon matta-clark)”.
Perlstein was born in Belgium in the 1930s until his family fled from the Nazis to Brazil in 1939. Later, he joined the diamond business of his family in Antwerp, where he eventually took over the diamond cutting company.
In the 1970s, Perlstein traveled to New York many times to cut and polish diamonds for the famous jeweler Harry Winston. During that time, he met many artists in Kansas City in Max, and then received invitations for studio visits and made a proposal to receive or trade art.
The experiences of Belgian modernists Magritte, Marcel Broodthaers, Pol Bury and Leo Dohmen, as well as Brazilian artists Ernesto Neto, Vik Muniz, Vik Muniz, Miguel Rio Branco, Marepe, Perlstein between two distinct countries reflect Perlstein.
Perlstein met Man Ray in 1969 at a gallery in Vence, southern France, which showed paintings, high heels and watercolors by American artists and purchased several works immediately. Their friendship lasted until the artist died in 1976. Perlstein obtained many “radiography” and iconic images, “for example, decorating a woman’s naked back with a F-hole of a violin.”
Perlstein’s collection also includes many early works from the artists, including Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein and Brice Marden in the mid-1960s, as well as Keith Haring’s works, including the oil on Canvas Painting Mickey Mouse (1981) “Sexually suggestive nose”.
Interest in neon baldness expanded to the works of Bruce Nauman, Mario Merz, Dan Flavin, Joseph Kosuth, Keith Sonnier, Martial Arts Rays and Jason Rhoades. In particular, many of Nauman’s works combine puns and word games, such as sculptures No singing neon sign (1970).
Perstein, according to era“Strangely, artists like Tunga, Pierre Boucher, Harry Callahan, Magritte and Maar, which include women’s hair (or appearance).” Lubo described the photo Publicité Pourpétrolehahn (1935) Maar’s “a three-tailed ship” is “unforgettable strange” and is consistent with Perlstein’s dedication to surrealism.
And, while many collectors hoard artworks in storage, Perlstein specifically retained “100 black and white photos, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Walker Evans, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy”, displayed on the walls of his egg room in his Paris home, and painted Doug anue doug anue the bo n of bo bo bo nhue the Agnes Martin.
“This house is a contemporary version of Alibaba Cave,” cultural critic Arthur Lubow for era.
