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LEO CASTELLI ET LES SIENS, by Annie Cohen-Solal (French version,Editons Gallimard, the english version should be out in May 2010)

Arriving in New York in 1941, Castelli would not open a gallery until fifteen years later, at the age of fifty. But being first to exhibit the unknown Jasper Joh...ns, Castelli emerged a tastemaker overnight and fast came to champion a virtual Who’s Who of twentieth-century masters: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Twombly, among them. The secret of Leo’s success? Personal devotion to his “heroes”: putting young talents on stipend and cultivating careers by finding the ideal collection for each work rather than the top bidder, he transformed the way business was done.