But instead of returning the painting, Goldreyer told Castelli the work had been lost.
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By that time, however, Mr Castelli's unprecedented power as a dealer and taste-maker had dwindled.
There were no lists of 50 or more collectors waiting for a piece from Pace or Castelli.
Clino Castelli used leather sheets to create a bench for two, which neatly folds into a flat box.
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Mr. Castelli recently issued the following recommendation to his clients: Bet on rising Treasury yields and falling prices.
Customers for these brightly banded circles and semi-circles had to be beaten away by his dealer, Leo Castelli.
The 27-year-old artist's first show with Mr Castelli in January 1958 marked the opening of a new era.
Mr Castelli's critics sometimes accused him of being a shallow man, interested only in the shock of the new.
Meanwhile Mr Castelli remarried twice, also opening galleries with his second and third wives, the last as recently as 1998.
After the war, Mr Castelli's career took a strange turn when his well-meaning father-in-law set him up as a sweater manufacturer.
Borromini was born Francesco Castelli in Bissone, in the Canton Ticino.
Leo Castelli was Lichtenstein's dealer going back to the sixties.
Once he had spotted their talent, Mr Castelli created an atmosphere of excitement around his stable of artists and even paid some a generous monthly retainer to keep them painting.
Filled with enthusiasm following the success of his Paris show, Mr Castelli took graduate courses in art history until he was drafted into the United States Army, where he worked in intelligence.
But it was only at the relatively late age of 50 in 1957, when Mr Castelli first opened the doors of his apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side as a gallery, that his career finally took off.
Take, for example, the work of 80-year-old master Robert Rauschenberg, who has been making people see the world in a new way since he debuted his "combines" (so called because they combine painting and collage) at the Leo Castelli gallery in the late 1950s.
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