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Collecting Art: The Secret is to Do It Out of Love,
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This review is from: A Life of Collecting: Victor and Sally Ganz (Hardcover)
If you have ever wondered what makes a collector a collector, you will be interested in reading this book. Victor and Sally Ganz were New York collectors who began collecting early in the 1940's with the purchase of Pablo Picasso's "The Dream" -- which they obtained for the princely sum of $7,000. Although the book does not reveal this fact, after their death the same painting fetched the staggering sum of $44 million dollars at a Christies auction, part of the largest single-owner sale ever held (over $200 million was realized). This book, while not telling you how to do the same, chronicles the collecting life of this self-effacing New York couple. It contains essays by famed Picasso writer John Richardson, and by other noted art historians such as Leo Steinberg and David Sylvester, plus some tributes by several artists the Ganzes collected. The book includes an interview with the late renowned gallery owner and dealer Leo Castelli. All of the essays are beautifully illustrated in full-color. This is not only a great coffee-table book but one which will educate you as well.
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A Life of Collecting: Victor and Sally Ganz by Michael Fitzgerald (Hardcover - Mar. 1998)
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