John Kasmin

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John Kasmin (born John Kaye, September 24, 1934 in London ) is a British gallery owner .

Life

John Kaye's father was a foreman in his parents' clothing factory in Whitechapel . Kaye was taken from Magdalen College School in Oxford at sixteen to start working at a sheet metal factory in Cowley . He moved to New Zealand when he was seventeen . In Auckland he changed his name to Kasmin and lived off odd jobs. In 1956 he was expelled as a Bohemian from New Zealand and returned to London, where he found a job as a laborer in the gallery of Victor Musgrave for a few months in Soho and also assisted his wife, the photographer Ida Kar . In 1959 he was employed at the Marlborough Gallery . He first met David Hockney in February 1961 . He bought his Doll Boy for 40 pounds sterling and from then on took care of the marketing of Hockney's work. Artistically more important to him, however, were Frank Stella and Anthony Caro , whom he later represented. Hockney's works were an important part in the gallery, the Kasmin 1963 with the financial support of art collector Sheridan Dufferin in New Bond Street opened. Not only the artists were unusual in the gallery, but also the large, bright gallery rooms. Although the opening exhibition with the color field painting by Kenneth Noland was still a failure, that changed quickly (with Hockney behind him). In 1966, six of his artists were shown at the Biennale di Venezia : Caro, Bernard Cohen , Robyn Denny , Helen Frankenthaler , Jules Olitski and Richard Smith . In 1972 Dufferin retired and the gallery closed with great pomp. Kasmin now worked in a small office and made his exhibitions in strange rooms. After the crash in the art market in 1992, he stopped altogether.

Kasmin is now devoting himself to his hobbies, he has traveled several times to Iran and Afghanistan, with Bruce Chatwin to West Africa, he collects antiques and from his postcard collection he has already stocked four thematic selected volumes and published them in his own publishing house.

Works

  • Want - 100 postcards from the collection of John Kasmin. Royal Academy of Arts, London 2013, ISBN 978-190-7533-46-4 .

literature

  • John Kasmin , in: Judith Benhamou-Huet (Ed.): Global collectors. Collectionneurs du monde. Phébus, Paris 2008, pp. 226–228 (not accessed).
  • The new situation: art in London in the sixties. Exhibition. Sotheby's, London 2013 (not viewed).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information on the vita was taken from:
    David Jenkins: The rogue and his gallery . Interview, in: Financial Times , November 12, 2016, pp. 16f.
personal data
SURNAME Kasmin, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaye, John (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH London