Nana Biography

So you have, in your field, you have stature now.

Yes, I do have stature in it. Yes, that’s right, and I am going up to New York and there were dealers there from Germany, who all came up and said hello.

Frau Mariner.

Yes, Frau Mariner.  Nancy they call me. And I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that part. I am glad it’s successful. It’s more fun if it is. I started two people on this business recently, and one is going to be as successful as I am and the other is not. And I can tell right away. Isn’t that funny? I don’t think she’ll make it at all.

What doesn’t she have?

I don’t think she has good taste.

That’s critical.

I don’t mean good taste. She doesn’t seem to know what’s going to sell and what isn’t. She’s not following the trends or whatever. She has good taste in many things.

So would say that a large part of what you do is sort of having a lot of know, about what’s in and what’s out, and what’s going to be in in the future, so you have to accumulate a lot of…

I do a lot of reading on it, and, knowing the market. Yes, there’s a lot that you have to know about it, and a lot of contacts, and of course, the fact that we lived in Europe, and the fact that we know people in Europe makes a big difference. Because a lot of people that are in this business, don’t travel very much. They stay home, they stay in their galleries, and they don’t know what’s going around.

You pick up a lot of information…

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