Warhol, Andy

She studied art at Parsons, dressed windows at R. H. Stearns, and did ads for Bonwit Teller, where she designed the signature violet logo on its shopping bags and worked alongside the young Andy Warhol. “Andy did the shoe drawings, I did the layout in ads for the Times,” she told me when I visited her studio, in Tehran, in May.

Klein, who now has a gallery in Manhattan and a showroom in Beijing, had neither an interest in, nor a hope of, competing with the old-world art elite, those dealers who once called Warhol “Andy” and phoned the ambulances whenever Jean-Michel Basquiat OD’d.