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and others, and helped establish a
European market for their work. In 1965, they acquired an additional apartment on Ca' del Dose in Venice. In 1968, the couple closed the Paris showroom and moved back to New York. At one time, the couple thought that Michael Sonnabend would run the New York gallery
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return pegged her total worth at $ 876 million, triggering a $ 471m tax bill. Her heirs subsequently sold a portion of her postwar-art collection for $ 600 million—reportedly the largest private sale in history. Although the family had been in talks with the auction houses, they chose to sell parts
138:(née Schapira, October 29, 1914 – October 21, 2007) was a Romanian-American art dealer of 20th-century art. The Sonnabend Gallery opened in Paris in 1962 and was instrumental in making American art of the 1960s known in Europe, with an emphasis on American
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where it was one of the major protagonists that made SoHo the international art center it remained until the early 1990s. The gallery was instrumental in making
European art of the 1970s known in America, with an emphasis on European
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In 1971, she opened the
Sonnabend Gallery, in a building at 420 West Broadway in Soho. The industrial chic restoration instantly became the center of the emerging SoHo art scene. She inaugurated her gallery with a performance by
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Sonnabend was born Ileana
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In 2011, 59 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by 46 artists, selected from
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In 2000, after she had closed her other galleries, Sonnabend and her adopted son
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called for him to masturbate in her gallery for two weeks in 1972, Sonnabend simply replied, "You do what you have to do."
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