Michael findlay art dealer

With hindsight, the 60s were an incredible eruption of creativity, but Findlay stresses that back then, and even today, these weren’t just names in books, but real people.

Michael Findlay

With real interest in art. In Findlay’s view, art was enjoyed for art’s sake, nobody, neither artists nor collectors, were trying to make a ‘career’ of it. And they didn’t expect to. They had other jobs that paid the bills.

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The aim of making art was to make more art. “I don’t remember ever having a conversation with any young artist, my age or a few years older, where they were thinking, ‘Well, what if this doesn’t work?’ It wasn’t like they’d taken a career choice; they were doing something they had to do, and they would do it for as long as they could do it, however they could get the money together to pay another $150 a month for their huge cold water loft that had no toilet in it or whatever.”

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