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Article: The ballad of Blinky Palermo: he was a student of Joseph Beuys, an early cohort of Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, and by 1977 a casualty of hard living. Yet in 13 short years Blinky Palermo created a body of work not just indelibly his own but also, strikingly, still fresh today.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Blinky Palermo's eternally young, loose-limbed production has been on many people's minds for the past few seasons. What with the recent revival of painting; the extended parameters of the medium as practiced by many artists, both established and emerging; and the continuing fascination with the more archeological aspects of 1960s and '70s German art activity, his work looks fresher than ever. Palermo's ethereal yet robustly painted early-to-mid-'60s canvases (both on and off the stretcher), with their intuitively placed squares, stripes and rectangles, and his eccentrically shaped and color-taped objects leaning against a wall or flying high, salon-style, near a cornice ...
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Article: Supply and demand.(NEW YORK)(art )
Art Monthly;
July 1, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... There were virtually no detectable weaknesses in the major New York sales in May. The overall total of $437m (compared to ... Sotheby's the only postwar European work to make a record was Blinky Palermo's Composition Blue-Red and White, 1965, which sold to ...
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