Individual Bullfight by Salvador Dali
“In order to have somebody really invest in art, they need to feel like they know what they’re getting.” —HOPE LLOYD BROWN century masterworks, including works by Degas, Renoir, Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Katz. Brown described working with Triad as involving a “huge learning curve.” “Before, I was working with individuals and designers, just acquiring art from different artists, different galleries,” she said. ... “Now with Triad, it’s much more focused, and much more academic. I have to do a lot more research.” This year, Brown has been specifically dedicating herself to researching the famous 20th-century surrealist Salvador Dali, as Triad works with the Pierre Argillet collection of etchings Dali constructed between 1958 and 1973. According to Brown, Triad has a relationship with Argillet’s son, who inherited the collection from his father. She recently completed and published a catalog accounting for all of the pieces in the collection. “It’s an amazing collection that Dali worked on for 15 years,” Brown said. On Nov. 15, Brown presented on the collection at Acquisitions of Fine Art in Hinsdale, where a selection from the artwork will be on display for a limited time.
“The best way to sell fine art is to know a tremendous amount about it,” she said. “In order to have somebody really invest in art, they need to feel like they know what they’re getting.” Prior to conducting research on the collection, Brown acknowledged that she was not very acquainted with Dali’s work. “I did not study contemporary art, other than a class here or a class there,” she said. ... “But Greg had sold this collection for 15 years.” Brown described Dali as “very complicated, both as a person and as an artist.” “He was incredibly scientifically-minded,” she said. “Everyone knows all of his theatrical [tendencies] and the melting clocks, [but] in reality, he was very, very interested in ‘big picture’ [questions]—what is religion, the atomic age, obscure geometric and mathematical [relations]. He wasn’t just this oddball, obscure surrealist guy; there was tremendous amount of skill and thought that went into everything that he did.” n
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