You know Leonard Lauder as an unsurpassed collector of Cubism, but what turned him into a collectort was something completely different. He actually began collecting as a boy of five or six, or maybe seven. As he tells the story, his father gave him five cents as an allowance, and he spent the whole thing buying five postcards of the Empire State Building — all the exact same image. “Five,” he told me, “is a collection.”
Archive for October 27th, 2012
October 27, 2012, 9:49 am
