Takashi Murakami, DOB & Me: On the Red Mound of the Dead, 2013
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.; Yoshitomo
Nara, Miss Spring, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 89 3/8 x 71 5/8 in. Courtesy
of Blum & Poe
Takashi Murakami's Gallery Ventures Out
Wall Street Journal
By CLAIRE MARTIN
IN 1999, A PAIR OF YOUNG GALLERISTS named Tim Blum and
Jeff Poe applied for a solo booth at the prestigious Art Basel fair in
Switzerland. Their plan was to debut the work of a Japanese artist and
friend whose sculptures and paintings blended anime, pop and classical
painting—the likes of which the art establishment had yet to see. When
they arrived at the fair, the art world was flabbergasted. Many saw the
pieces as fluff and some thought Blum and Poe were "out of our minds,
like insane, strange, deluded idiots," Blum says. Still, they sold
everything. And as public understanding of the art grew, their careers
took off alongside that of the artist they had helped launch: Takashi
Murakami.
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