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Who Will Save Your Marisol?

In the 1960s, Marisol held the art world in the palm of her hand. Laconic, witty, and wealthy, her shows attracted long lines and crowds. At the height of her fame, she walked away, but never stopped making art.

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Marisol famously cultivated an aura of mystery, and indeed the Buffalo AKG team was somewhat mystified as to why it had been entrusted with the artist’s legacy. Photo: Harry Mattison/Courtesy of Bill Katz/Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Marion Maneker
July 30, 2024

Eight years ago, Cathleen Chaffee, the chief curator of the Buffalo AKG, was alerted to an extraordinary windfall. Marisol, the elusive, glamorous, mononymous, Paris-born artist—who attained worldwide celebrity in the 1960s before fading into obscurity—had bequeathed to the museum some 100 sculptures, 600 works on paper, and 6,000 photographs, most of which had been collecting dust in the artist’s Tribeca loft at the time of her death.