Pollock and Boroff report Salander, who turns 60 on Friday, had been unemployed, as was his second wife, Julie, according to a letter she wrote to bankruptcy court in April. She was working for Natasha Richardson until the actress died following a ski accident in March. The couple have four children; Lawrence Salander has three other children from his previous marriage.
Millbrook’s newest galleristo works on leafy Franklin Avenue, across the street from a bank and hardware store. Art merchants down the block aren’t impressed.
“Wow, the chutzpah,” said Thelma Zwirn, the owner of Millbrook Gallery & Antiques. “You’d think he’d be ashamed and want to hide.”
Salander’s new venture is modest compared with Salander- O’Reilly Galleries LLC, the gallery he operated in a $154,000-a- month mansion off Madison Avenue. There, he sold Old Master paintings and modernist artworks to hedge-fund managers and well-heeled collectors.
They continue The Phoenix gallery exhibits works by Hudson Valley artists, including canvases by painter Ralph Della-Volpe, and small abstract canvases by Salander himself, priced at $100 apiece according to an antiques dealer down the street.
The current exhibition, “Photography and Manipulation,” features landscape photographs by Annemiek Do Gersten and is on view though June 30.
One of the few vestiges of Salander’s former days as a highflying dealer was a marble sculpture of a seated boy, attributed to famed Italian sculptor Antonio Canova, who died in 1822.
The walls are painted an elegant salmon hue and the wooden floors shine with varnish. The sprawling gallery was formerly three spaces, since combined, including a defunct department store.
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