Leo Castelli Gallery

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Leo Castelli Gallery was a pioneering New York art gallery renowned for championing major postwar American artists, especially key figures of Pop Art and Minimalism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art gallery
commercial art gallery
associatedWith New York art scene
SoHo
surface form: SoHo art district
country United States of America
surface form: United States
curatorialFocus avant-garde movements
emerging American artists
exhibitedWorkType conceptual works
installation art
painting
sculpture
foundedBy Leo Castelli
genre contemporary art
postwar art
inception 1957
industry art market
influenced gallery-artist contractual practices
international contemporary art market
knownFor championing postwar American art
launching careers of major American artists
promoting Minimalism
promoting Pop Art
language English
locatedIn Manhattan
New York City
Upper East Side
movement Conceptual art
Minimalism
Pop art
surface form: Pop Art
namedAfter Leo Castelli
notableArtistRepresented Andy Warhol
Bruce Nauman
Dan Flavin
Donald Judd
Frank Stella
Jasper Johns
Robert Rauschenberg
Roy Lichtenstein
operatedBranch Leo Castelli Warehouse
roleInArtWorld pioneered primary market for American contemporary art
served as model for postwar commercial galleries
significantPeriod 1960s
1970s
1980s
streetAddress 4 East 77th Street

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Roy Lichtenstein representedBy Leo Castelli Gallery
Combines exhibitedAt Leo Castelli Gallery
Norman Bluhm exhibitedAt Leo Castelli Gallery