My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Several years later, we moved into contemporary art. Once our walls were filled at home, we said, "What do we do?" We created an art foundation to assemble a public collection of contemporary artworks that would be available for loan to museums... More >>>