Carolina QuotesI hung Baziote's [painting] show with him at Peggy's in 1944. After it was up and we had stood in silence looking at it for a while, I noticed he had turned white.. .Suddenly he [Baziotes] looked at me and said: 'You're the one I trust; if you tell me the show is no good, I'll take it right down and cancel it.'.. ..you see, at the opposite side of the coin of the abstract expressionist's ambition and of out not giving a damn, was also not knowing whether our pictures were even pictures, let alone whether they were any good...
Robert Motherwell Connected to the Carolinas
Source
William Baziotes – paintings and drawings, curated by Michael Preble, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2004, p. 181
- work
- after 1970
- year
- 1970
- locator
- p. 181
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“I hung Baziote's [painting] show with him at Peggy's in 1944…” Robert Motherwell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-16BFC6A169. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/16bfc6a169
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