Richard L. Feigen Explained

Richard L. Feigen
Birth Date:	8 August 1930
Birth Place:	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Death Place:	Mount Kisco, New York, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Gallerist
Spouse:	Sandra Elizabeth Canning WalkerMargaret (Peggy) Langan-CulverIsabelle Harnoncourt Wisowaty

Richard Lee Feigen (August 8, 1930 – January 29, 2021) was an American gallery owner.^[1]

Early life and education

A native of Chicago, he was the son of a lawyer and a homemaker who, while not themselves collectors, encouraged their son's early acquisitive interests. He purchased his first artwork in 1942, at the age of 11.^[2]

Feigen earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1952^[3] and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University in 1954.

Career

He opened his first gallery on Astor Street in Chicago in 1957,^[4] and displayed impressionist and surrealist artists from the 20th Century, such as George Grosz, Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Cornell, James Rosenquist, and Ray Johnson. He opened a second gallery in New York City in 1962 and displayed works from Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, and Constantin Brâncuși. Throughout his career, Feigen sold paintings to the likes of the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery, and the National Gallery of Art.

Feigen was cast as a version of himself in Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street.

Personal life

He was married three times: to Sandra Elizabeth Canning Walker in 1966,^[5] to Margaret (Peggy) Langan-Culver in 1998,^[6] and to Isabelle Harnoncourt Wisowaty in 2007.

Feigen died from complications of COVID-19 in Mount Kisco, New York, on January 29, 2021, at the age of 90.^[7]

Books

• Dubuffet and the Anticulture. Exh. cat. 1969–1970 New York.
• Tales from the Art Crypt: The Painters, the Museums, the Curators, the Collectors, the Auctions, the Art. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Notable exhibitions in New York

• 1996: A Century of Landscape Painting, England and France 1770–1870^[8]
• 2004–2005: Beckmann/Picasso show with the Jan Krugier Gallery^{[9] [10] [11] [12]}
• 2010: Richard Wilson and the British Arcadia^{[13] [14]}
• 2011–2012: Late Medieval Panel Paintings^[15]
• 2015: Ray Johnson's Art World (estate of Ray Johnson, 1927–1995)^[16]

External links

• Web site: Richard L. Feigen & Co. . https://web.archive.org/web/20210201184545/http://www.rlfeigen.com/ . 2021-02-01. dead.
• Profile by Susan Moore in Apollo, March 2014.
• Oral history at the Archives of American Art, January 9–13, 2009.

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Feigen, Richard 1930- (Richard L. Feigen). encyclopedia.com.
2. Web site: Oral history interview with Richard L. Feigen, Jan 9-13, 2009. Smithsonian: Archives of American Art. November 20, 2015. James. McIlhenney.
3. Web site: January 31, 2021. Richard Feigen (1930–2021). February 7, 2021. Artforum. en-US.
4. News: Genzlinger. Neil. February 7, 2021. Richard Feigen, 90, Dealer and Gallerist Who Boosted Masters and Young Artists. 170. 23. New York Times. 58962. February 7, 2021.
5. News: February 24, 1966. Richard Feigen Weds Mrs. Sandra Walker (Published 1966). en-US. 31. New York Times. February 7, 2021. 0362-4331.
6. Web site: Jeromack. Paul. September 23, 1998. Artnet News. February 7, 2021. Artnet.
7. Web site: Kinsella. Eileen. February 1, 2021. Art Luminaries Pay Tribute to Richard Feigen, the 'Collector in Dealer's Clothes' Revered for Championing Old and New Masters Alike. Artnet News.
8. News: The New York Times. Holland. Carter. May 17, 1996. November 21, 2015. Art in Review.
9. News: Sizing Up Two Masters, Side by Side. January 6, 2005. November 20, 2015. New York Sun. Lance. Esplund.
10. News: New Criterion. Gallery Chronicle. January 2005. November 21, 2015. James. Panero.
11. News: New York Observer. Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time. December 13, 2004. November 21, 2015. Hilton. Kramer.
12. News: The New York Times. November 12, 2004. November 21, 2015. Ken. Johnson. Art in Review; 'Beckmann-Picasso/Picasso-Beckmann'.
13. News: The Mystery of the British Landscape Master. Souren. Melikian. The New York Times. June 4, 2010. November 21, 2015.
14. News: The Dawn of the Romantic. June 10, 2010. November 21, 2015. N. F.. Karlins. Artnet.
15. News: Suffering of the Body. Paul. Jeromack. Artnet. January 23, 2012. November 21, 2015.
16. News: Always On His Own Terms: Ray Johnson Defies Categories 20 Years After His Death. January 8, 2015. November 21, 2015. Randy. Kennedy. The New York Times.