Paule Anglim

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Paule Anglim
Born(1923-01-30)January 30, 1923
DiedApril 2, 2015(2015-04-02) (aged 92)
Known forart dealer, curator

Paule Isabelle Anglim (January 30, 1923 – April 2, 2015) was a Canadian-born gallerist, dealer, and curator. She founded and directed

Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco for approximately four decades before her death on April 2, 2015.[1][2]
According to a tribute written about her in
SF Gate April 2, 2015, Anglim "endeared herself to the artists she handled with her unflinching commitment to work that she believed in. Her exhibitions encompassed the work of defining figures of the Bay Area Beat era and conceptual art sensibility, such as David Ireland, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni and Jim Melchert."[3]

Life and career

Born in a small town near

Conceptual Art movement of the 1960s and ’70s, and brought Bay Area conceptual artists to international attention. In the 1980s, the gallery moved to Geary Street and continued to show sculpture, installation, video, performance, and conceptual art. Anglim met her near-contemporary Louise Bourgeois in Paris, offering her a solo show in 1987, and represented the artist until her death in 2010.[5] In 2007, Bourgeois' Crouching Spider, on loan from the artist, was installed on San Francisco's Embarcadero, epitomizing Anglim's longstanding commitment to the public realm.[6] Another Spider, acquired from Gallery Paule Anglim in 1996,[7] set records at auction when sold by a private collector for 10.7 m in 2011[8] and remains among the world's most highly valued artworks by a woman.[9]

Artists supported by Paule Anglim

See

Gallery Paule Anglim
.

Personal life

Paule Anglim was married twice, to Charles Anglim and later to William Turnbull, both deceased. Her son Philip Anglim became an award-winning stage and television actor. Anglim preferred not to share her birth date. She held an annual "Epiphany Party" in January at her home, across the street from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her sparsely furnished Russian Hill home, where she hosted salons and dinners, housed her personal art collection, including works of Francis Picabia, Rebecca Horn, and Marcel Duchamp, among others.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Appreciation: The irreplaceable Paule Anglim". SFGate.
  2. ^ "Paule Isabelle Anglim". Paule Isabelle Anglim Obituary.
  3. ^ Baker and Whiting, Kenneth and Sam (2 April 2015). "Longtime S.F. Gallery Owner Paule Anglim Dies". SF Gate.
  4. ^ Held, John. "An Artful Journey: Paule Anglim". SFAQ.
  5. ^ Reed, Amiee. "Louise Bourgeois: Mother and Child, at Gallery Paule Anglim". Daily Serving.
  6. ^ "San Francisco will say goodbye to Crouching Spider". Art Daily.
  7. ^ "Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)". Christie's.
  8. ^ "The price of being female". Economist.
  9. ^ "Louise Bourgeois' Spider Poised to Break Record". Penta.
  10. ^ Behbehani, Mandy. "Paule Anglim runs perhaps the most elite - and long-lived - gallery in town". SF Gate.

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