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In the early 1950's Lee Krasner, not yet famous but already a promising Abstract Expressionist painter, asked Hans Hofmann, her former teacher, to help her land a gallery show. He offered her the biggest compliment he could: "This is so good," he said of her work, "you would not believe it was done by a woman." Nevertheless, he declined.
...Asking why women's art sells for less than men's elicits a long and complex answer, with endless caveats, entirely germane qualifiers and diverse, sometimes contradictory reasons. But there is also a short and simple, if unpopular, answer that none of these explanations can trump. Women's art sells for less because it is made by women.
Posted by Bobby Farouk at May 6, 2005 05:20 AMI do like the bit of Whiteread-Hirst outrage: her junk should be worth as prepostrously much as his junk!
Posted by: Alan Allport at May 6, 2005 07:08 AMIt was common fairly recently in classical music. Said of an authoritative, virtuosic pianist: "She plays like a man."
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at May 6, 2005 04:07 PM