{"id":32107,"date":"2017-02-15T10:18:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=32107"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:36:15","slug":"simon-cerigo-wants-to-know-yo-walter-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2017\/02\/15\/simon-cerigo-wants-to-know-yo-walter-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"~SIMON CERIGO . . wants to know !! yo, . . WALTER ROBINSON !! what up ?!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

so, even though SIMON is R.I.P. . . .
\nhe did <\/em>manage to whisper a few little nothings . . in my ear, for Valentine’s Day, yesterday.<\/p>\n

this is what – he wants to know: <\/p>\n

“IS WALTER a millionaire . . . yet ?
\nI got a couple of DAN ASHERS . . . to sell him !!”<\/p>\n

and, <\/p>\n

“what took him – so long !!”<\/p>\n

good question !!!!<\/p>\n

\"walter-Robinson---whitney-museum\"<\/a>
\nWALTER ROBINSON . . large painting, at the right – at the WHITNEY Museum, featured in the New York Times Art section this weekend, headlining a review by Roberta Smith.<\/p>\n

who cares what she wrote, and . . more annoyingly, what took her so long ?
\nmore than 3 decades (!!) to get that Walter – was a genius American painter ???
\nno matter:
\nthat half page photo by JAKE NAUGHTON for the New York Times – is worth<\/strong> a thousand words !!!
\ngorgeous !!!<\/p>\n

left: KATHE BURKHART, ‘Prick’: From the Liz Taylor Series (Suddenly Last Summer), from 1987, reprises a movie scene with Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift. <\/p>\n

lol, and Walter could <\/strong>be a prick<\/em>, too. if truth be told, ha.
\njust . . if any hard-core insiders are reading.
\nok. ok. people say bad things about me too, & prob well-deserved, I don’t “suffer fools gladly”, and they wonder why I’m . . .”bitter”,
\nbut . . hey, it’s just very funny – if<\/strong> you are in the know !!<\/p>\n

right: WALTER ROBINSON, ‘Baron Sinister’, acrylic on child’s bed sheet, from 1986.<\/p>\n

PHOTO of the NEW YORK TIMES page: KATE CERIGO, Simon’s (and mine) daughter, who was born in 1986 \/ and lived through it all, & is just starting to . . . tell-the-tale, from the inside track !!
\n“Under the Volcano” . . . !!!!
\nSIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH.<\/p>\n

and apparently . . it’s a tale that needs – to be told !!
\nI don’t see any<\/strong> of these 80s painters – in that Whitney show !!<\/p>\n

but, you know what they say, the longer it takes you to rise up to the top, the more critically acclaimed & important – your spot at the top shines. so, wtf !!
\n#dontbelievemejustwatch !!<\/p>\n

I figure it’s no accident \/ I’m still<\/strong> around to kick the news up, good and hard.
\n#fate #destiny #NYCartcrticsaresodumb
\nthe NYC art market is so<\/strong> slow \/ & can we say: as in, retarded, as well ?!!<\/p>\n

\"Simon-Cerigo-&-WALTER-ROBINSON-painyting\"<\/a>
\na young SIMON CERIGO, he was just 34, when this photo was taken, in 1986 . .
\nin his short-lived SIMON CERIGO GALLERY on AVE A, in the East Village, with an early WALTER ROBINSON painting, often referred to as ‘Ape Reporter’. it’s actually titled, by Walter – on the back: ‘DAD’.
\nSimon was one of the first<\/em> to buy & exhibit Walter’s work.
\narchival photo: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

ps: fashionistas . . note the totally buttoned-up shirt \/ with no tie.
\nwas the guy on point, or what ?
\nway too-ahead of his times, no wonder his life feel hard, into . . ‘forget my woes’ partying.<\/p>\n

\"Walter-RoBinson--revenge\"<\/a>
\nWALTER ROBINSON, ‘Revenge’, 1982. acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 ins.
\nthis was<\/em> in our collection, from day one !! meaning the early 80’s.
\nit still has the original Metro Pictures label – on the back.
\nwe had to sell it, to feed the kiddies \/ to Simon’s sister, Helene Cerigo Lupatkin, the doctor, lol,
\nbut at least it stayed – in the family.<\/p>\n

an absolute gorgeous \/ early painting, ‘Revenge’ was included in the the big WALTER ROBINSON retrospective, and it was also shown at . . DEITCH PROJECTS, recently.
\nPHOTO: taken in her home, by HELENE CERIGO LUPATKIN, MD.<\/p>\n

so, yeah.
\nme and Simon owed at least 10, if not more (!!) of Walter’s works, including one on a large white bed sheet, in varying sizes and of different subject matter, from the 80s on.
\nany time any dough came our way – we bought another.
\nSimon, was sure they were no-brainers, (and so was I) but no matter how <\/strong>hard he tried to sell them, there were . . no takers. he couldn’t even give them away. yes, it was that bad.
\nno help from the ‘Times’.<\/p>\n

it took the art world . . over 30 years to catch up to – us !!
\nI just wish Simon was alive – to see this.
\n#revenge<\/p>\n

I bet a lot of Simon’s rich, but useless collector pals, are kicking themselves in their sorry fat asses – now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

so, even though SIMON is R.I.P. . . . he did manage to whisper a few little nothings . . in my ear, for Valentine’s Day, yesterday. this is what – he wants to know: “IS WALTER a millionaire . . . yet ? I got a couple of DAN ASHERS . . . to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32107"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32124,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32107\/revisions\/32124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}