My Life in Art Irving Blum with Dave Hickey from ferus Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 38 min 95 sec
✓ Published: 10-Aug-2012

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Irving Blum forged the path for Pop on the West Coast in 1962 when he introduced Warhol's Soup Cans and debuted the work of Ed Ruscha the next year. Together with Walter Hopps and Ed Keinholtz, Blum is the last surviving principal of the pioneering Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. He then opened Blum-Helman Gallery in New York in the late 1970s. Splitting his time between New York, Bel Air, and more recently Santa Fe, Blum has remained a vital consigliere to galleries like Gagosian, Gavin Brown, Ho