Robert Scull (1915–January 1, 1986) was an American art collector, best known for his "world-famous collection of Pop and Minimal art". [1] Born in New York to Russian immigrant parents, Scull dropped out of high school and had various jobs until his wife inherited a share of a …

Apr 6, 2025 · Robert and Ethel Scull were paparazzi material at its most unhinged. Known as Bob and Spike, they were one of New York’s most incendiary power couples of the 1960s. And now their son, Jonathan, along with author and childhood friend Amy Penn, are looking to bring the story to the big (or little) screen.

Oct 22, 2021 · In the 1950s and 1960s, Scull’s unabashed Jewishness and ravenous appetite for works by Johns and other new artists made him famous, rich and despised.

Apr 9, 2010 · A half-century ago, before the phrase “Pop Art” was even coined, a taxi tycoon named Robert C. Scull started buying up dozens of works by artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and ...

Jan 4, 1986 · NEW YORK — Robert C. Scull, who used the wealth of his taxi fleet to collect contemporary art and encourage young artists, has died at his home in Warren, Conn., it was learned Friday. He was 70...

Sep 9, 1986 · Pop and Minimal art collected in the 1960's by Ethel Redner Scull and Robert C. Scull, the taxi tycoon, will be auctioned in separate sessions on Nov. 10 and 11, Sotheby's said yesterday....

At some point in the early 1960s, the rapidly emerging New York City pop art collector Robert “Bob” Scull was invited to one of several ritzy high fashion stores along London’s Savile Row.

Apr 26, 2017 · Understanding how the Scull auction departed from the norm can help illuminate how today’s market operates. Here are three ways the sale helped shape today’s art market. The Scull sale put post-war and contemporary art on the map, price-wise. Andy Warhol. Jasper Johns. Robert Rauschenberg. Franz Kline. Frank Stella.

Jan 3, 1986 · Robert C. Scull, the taxi tycoon who assembled a world-famous collection of Pop and Minimal art in the 1960's, died Wednesday night at his home in Warren, Conn., of complications from diabetes.

The notorious Scull auction was a milestone event for contempo art; it heralded the commercial success of Pop, but more importantly, it affirmed the role big money would have in shaping and dominating the art world in the later 20th century and beyond.