"I didn't do paintings for three years; I felt like painting was not enough.
I looked at paintings for ten minutes, and by the time we met again the cloud had lifted and the sun had broken through.
He had been the biggest buyer of American modernist paintings for four years, snapping up works by masters like Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth, Marsden Hartley and Stuart Davis at top dollar, and buying everything through the Gerald Peters Gallery in Manhattan.
In return the Philadelphia Museum will lend Dresden five paintings from its collection: Courbet's "Waves," Cassatt's "Woman With a Pearl Necklace in Loge," Monet's "Morning Haze," Braque's "Still Life With Fruit Dish" and Matisse's "Still Life on a Table". The Matisse will go to Dresden for five years, and the other paintings for six months.
He had resolved to make "Date Paintings" for four years before displaying them in quantity, which he finally did at the Tokyo Biennial in 1970 and at his first solo show, the next year, with the prominent Konrad Fischer gallery, in Düsseldorf.
And from the start, rather than showing any kind of remorse, Zimmerman has used his notoriety to make a buck, from raising $200,000 on his website to pay for his defense/living expenses to selling his paintings for six figures on Ebay.
The outcome of their summit, trumpeted loudly to the press: a commission of 100 new Husain paintings for one billion rupees ($21.6 million).
Indeed, in a separate blog entry Paddy Johnson expressed ambivalence: "Knowing the artists and fields is essential to understanding the dispute: Pruitt's been making panda bear paintings for ten years and freely appropriates found imagery.
+ The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists attempted to sell two Dutch Masters paintings for 50 million euros back to the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, from which they were stolen back in 2005.
+ The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists attempted to sell two Dutch Masters paintings for 50 million euros back to the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, from which they were stolen back in 2005.
