John Kasmin
(1934-), Art dealerSitter in 11 portraits
An art dealer who along with Robert Fraser promoted British and American Pop Art in the 1960s. Kasmin started his career working with the London art dealer Victor Musgrave. In 1960 he met David Hockney, and when he set up his own gallery in 1963, Hockney became one of his first artists. Other artists that Kasmin showed included: Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Morris Louis, Anthony Caro, John Latham, Howard Hodgkin and Gillian Ayres. Kasmin opened a large white space on New Bond Street that was unusual for the time. Kasmin closed his gallery in 1972 but continued to operate in partnership with other London dealers into the 1990s.
John Kasmin; Sheridan Frederick Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 21 May 1963
NPG P797(28)
Peter King; Shelagh Loader; John Kasmin; Victor Musgrave
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1955
NPG x199679
by Ida Kar
velox snapshot print, 1956
NPG x134026
John Kasmin; Victor Musgrave and an unknown woman
by (Godfrey) Thurston Hopkins
bromide print, circa 1957
NPG x131013
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1957
NPG x126007
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1959
NPG x134445
Boris Sergeevich Brunov; John Kasmin
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1959
NPG x135118
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1959
NPG x126006
John Aubrey Clarendon Latham; John Kasmin
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1963
NPG x131195
John Aubrey Clarendon Latham; John Kasmin
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1963
NPG x134162
by Graham Keen
modern bromide print from original negative, December 1965
NPG x199757
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