If Lee Krasner Had Gone to Business School* —SOLD

Any modern marketing manager could have helped Jackson Pollock’s career, or at least fattened his bank roll, by realizing that, because few art collectors had the space to hang the artist’s monumental size paintings, profits could have been largely multiplied by the simple application of a sharp mat knife. Picasso didn’t need the money, but Guernica could have easily been cut into ten or twelve smaller paintings.  This might also have worked for Monet’s Water Lilies, but that’s the subject of another box.

* Even without an MBA, Pollock’s wife sold her dead husband’s paintings for the next twenty-five years and made out, we can guess, rather well.