Robert Isaacson
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Robert Isaacson was a collector, scholar, and art dealer eulogized upon his death as "the Berenson of nineteenth century academic studies."
Robert Isaacson owned Jean-Léon Gérôme's "Solomon's Wall, Jerusalem (The Wailing Wall)" for two decades; the circa 1875 canvas was sold at Christie's in May 1999 for $2,312,500, establishing what was then a record price for the artist.
George Tooker
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George Clair Tooker, Jr. was an American figurative painter. His works are associated with magic realism, social realism, photorealism, and surrealism. His subjects are depicted naturally as in a phot
Robert Isaacson
…Isaacson Gallery, located at 22 East 66th Street, represented the estate of Elie Nadelman and championed Magic Realist painters (including his favorite, George Tooker), Isaacson's growing interest and fascination with nineteenth century academic painting, an extremely unfashionable pursuit in the 1950s, would in time…
George Tooker (left) receiving the National Medal of Arts from George W. Bush in 2007