«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

LEO CASTELLI, ARTFUL SEDUCER

Art dealer Larry Gagosian, who collaborated with Castelli on a joint SoHo space, reminisces about Castelli’s notorious exploits with women, describing one particularly memorable tale: “There was a girlfriend with lipstick waiting on a couch in his office for two hours and he said to me, ‘Come, let’s have a drink with her, and we’ll go to her studio and you can tell her you like her paintings.’ And I said, ‘Leo, that’s a bit much for me’ — they were unspeakably bad.” [p. 408-9]

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