When David Hockney’s 1968 double portrait Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy failed to sell at Sotheby’s in 1985—bought in at $570,000 against a $650,000 reserve—few could have predicted that 40 ...
He took major financial risks that, for a time, paid off in multimillion-dollar sales, mostly in American modernism, to ...
While the gun was discovered in art dealer Andrew Crispo’s 57th Street gallery, and while the man who fired it claimed that Crispo forced the victim to kneel and be shot, and while the shooter’s ...
His fall from the pinnacle of the New York art world involved murder, torture, tax evasion, extortion and two terms in prison. By Clay Risen Andrew Crispo, a once high-flying art gallerist in ...
A once-prominent art gallerist plagued by a series of scandals that nearly saw him accused of murder has died aged 78. Andrew Crispo died in a Brooklyn nursing facility February 8, his lawyer ...
Notorious art dealer Andrew Crispo – imprisoned for threatening to kidnap a 4-year-old girl – caught a break yesterday from a federal appeals court, which cut his sentence by more than a year. Crispo ...