NINA SUNDELL
July 22, 1936
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

NINA C SUNDELL
b. July 22, 1936
New York, NY 10011

New York Times - May 2007:“Jasper Johns’s “Figure 4” (1959), a nod to the Cubist canvases of Picasso, Braque and Gris, was sold to Mr. Gagosian for $17.4 million, after a high estimate of $14 million. Mr. Johns layered newsprint on the canvas along with oil and encaustic to create a collage in which the newsprint is visible. Nina Sundell, the daughter of Mr. Johns’s longtime dealer, Leo Castelli, who died in 1999, and her husband, Michael, had owned the painting since it was painted in 1959.”

Harvard Magazine:
“Nina Castelli Sundell ’57 died August 3, 2014, in New York City. She was born in Vienna and spent her first years in Paris. Her life’s work was introducing contemporary art to American audiences in an era when it was shown and known chiefly in New York. In 1968 she co-founded The New Gallery in Cleveland, later known as the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1973, she co-founded Independent Curators Incorporated (now Independent Curators International), which organizes artistically challenging exhibitions in and around the Capitol. From 1984 to 1990 she served as director of the art gallery at Lehman College, City University of New York, and she devoted the last part of her career to supporting her husband’s work as president of the artists’ colony Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She was the author of a novel, The Dallek Touch. She leaves two daughters, Margaret and Marianne, and a son, David; her husband, Michael, died in 2010.”