The dealer's commitment to him was such that, when her gallery moved to a new Los Angeles location in 1963, she designed the space to accommodate his nine -
foot verticals (she did not yet realized that his new works were limited to the five -
foot - square format), and installed a
narrow platform of white marble along the baseboard to keep visitors at a distance from the extremely fragile paintings, whose inscrutability seemed
especially capable of provoking the public.