Ivan Karp, the owner of the gallery in New York that Newsweek called "the assistant chief of the pop art movement," died of natural causes in his bed in Charlotteville, New York, on June 28. He was 86 years.
From 1959 to 1969, Karp is assistant director of the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, where he participated in the early careers of some of the biggest names of the time, as John Chamberlain, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol.
Karp, once said in an interview that while working as a distributor for the Martha Jackson Gallery in late 1950, sold a sculpture before Chamberlain in the basement of the gallery for $ 275, "based on my enthusiasm and my faith ... that was really something interesting.
"He said that the venda convinced Jackson to keep Chamberlain after evaluating the work of the artist" very strange and very difficult. "
Karp has worked as an art critic for The Village Voice 1954-55. "Somebody said that writers need to be working for nothing," he said after joining the paper.
After ten years of Leo Castelli, Karp branched own business in 1969 and founded the avant-garde art gallery OK Harris in Soho, which regularly promotes the movement of photo-realistic and was one of the first gallery showing Artist Robert Bechtle.
The gallery is open even after 43 years, now at 383 West Broadway. A memorial service will be held this fall, according to the magazine OK Harris.
Ivan Karp was born June 4, 1926, the Bronx. His father, a hat salesman, soon moved with his family in Brooklyn. Mr. Karp Erasmus Hall left school to join the Army Air Forces in 1944. He remembered taking the middle name of Conrad, when he was in line to enlist.
He pointed out that men without names were marked as "not me", for the sixth grade and I thought it was a terrible aspect. Wearing "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad at the time.
Mr. Karp attended the New School for Social Research and the GI Bill was an early art critic for The Village Voice in mid 1950. He has also published short stories. At one point sold Humor ice cream and tried to organize a union for employees of the company.
In another, he was hired by the New York theater companies to change the romantic scenes in movies from the west, believing that fans just liked guns and galloping.
As president of the Society of Arts Recovery Anonymous, Mr. Karp shooting in New York in a jeep atrotinat looking gargoyles, capitals and cornices of the buildings had been cleared. It is a particular pleasure, was to find portraits carved stone Italian craftsmen who were immigrants from one another, warts, missing teeth and all.
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