Incollect Magazine - Issue 9

Incollect Magazine 81 Visit Incollect.com to check out our extensive gallery network and artwork listings. Isabella Garrucho Iconica Fine Art, Greenwich, Connecticut Isabella Garrucho, owner of Iconica Fine Art in Westport, Connecticut, has spent 40 years in the art world, including two years working closely with American artist Robert Motherwell, a major figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. She had a commission for the lobby of General Electric’s corporate headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut. “They needed an 18 by 6 foot piece, very large, for the lobby. It took two years to finish the commission and I got to know him quite well during the process.” Thirty years ago she founded Isabella Garrucho Fine Art, a gallery specializing in contemporary and modern art. Over the years she has built a reputation for assembling quality art collections, working closely with both private collectors and corporate clients, and has helped develop more than 150 corporate art collections, including for General Electric, Pepsi, and Xerox. Her new gallery, Iconica Fine Art, represents, “a diverse selection of artists and serves a global clientele, providing services such as art acquisition, art sales guidance to new or young collectors, collection management, and art advisory.” Recently she sourced a Fernand Léger sculpture and two important Rufino Tamayo paintings for an American businessman based in Peru. “I often buy and sell for the same clients, when they want something new,” she says. “Collectors like to change things around with their artwork all the time.” Left: Susan Rothenberg, Red Dance, 1986. Single color lithograph, 20 x 14½ in. framed. Edition of 31. Image courtesy of Isabella Garrucho Gallery. Right: Isabella Garrucho. “I had the privilege of working closely with Motherwell throughout the entire commissioning and execution of Arabesque. It was Motherwell’s last painting, symbolizing the conclusion of an extraordinary era for one of the greatest American Abstract Expressionist artists. As the formal agent representing the corporate client, I was again entrusted with the sale of the painting following the corporation HQ’s move to another state.” – Isabella Garrucho, Iconica Fine Art Robert Motherwell, Arabesque, 1989. Oil on canvas, 72 x 215.9 in. Commissioned for the General Electric corporate art collection, it was the single largest piece executed by Motherwell. Now in the col- lection of The Dolder Grand hotel, Zürich.