Art Treasures Saved From The Dumpster
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| Image: Ángel Franco/The New York Times |
Darryl Kelly was called in to clean up the apartment of a reclusive hoarder who had died there. The dead hoarder was photographer Harry Shunk who had once been semi-famous and had collaborated with Yves Klein, Christo and Andy Warhol. Amidst the junk that filled 7 dumpsters Kelly found a number of neatly packaged boxes which he kept. When he eventually opened them he found some amazing stuff: "sketches and three-dimensional maquettes by Christo; large-format photographs of the artist Yves Klein directing naked women dabbed in paint; lithographs by Andy Warhol and Paul Jenkins; a menu handwritten by Larry Rivers; museum posters; gallery fliers; magazine clippings; a packet of gold leaf belonging to Mr. Klein."
I guess he won't have to clean out the apartments of dead people any time soon.
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