Muckety this! Jonas Salk to Andy Warhol

How is the inventor of the polio vaccine connected to the famed artist?

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For twenty five years, until his death, scientist Jonas Salk was married (for the second time) to artist Francoise Gilot, previously the companion of Pablo Picasso. Gilot’s two children by Picasso were Claude and Paloma.

Paloma Picasso became a well-known jewelry designer for, among others, Tiffany.

Gene Moore, Tiffany’s (and Bonwit Teller’s) eminent window dresser turned store street frontage from crammed crass advertisement into high art, literally, by hiring up and comers like Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol to show their work in the stores’ public displays. Warhol worked for Moore on Bonwit Teller’s window displays.