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Art Gallery |
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724 Fifth Ave New York, NY, 10019 United States |
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Ph:212 262 5050 |
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Tibor de Nagy |
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The start of the gallery came in the unlikely form in 1949 of the "Tibor de Nagy Marionette Company," which was the brainchild of John Bernard Myers, who was an avid collector of the arts, author and puppeteer, and also Tibor de Nagy who was a former Hungarian banker. Despite the fact that the first company was a financial failure, it laid the path for the start of the fine art gallery that was to come as a result of the marionette company's strong support from members of the First Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock, who urged Mr. de Nagy and Mr. Myers to open a commercial art business bearing the name "Tibor de Nagy Gallery." With the English art collector Dwight Ripley agreeing to offer six years of financial backing for the gallery's exhibition space on East 53rd Street in New York, the gallery was formed with Tibor de Nagy and John B. Myers as co-director |
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