art collecting
Douglas Cooper – a complex character with a passion for Cubism
Prone to paranoia and tantrums, the critic and collector made many enemies, but his firsthand knowledge of Léger, Picasso and Braque also won the admiration of art historians
The robber baron who 'bought judges as other men buy food’
The robber barons of the gilded age, at the turn of the 20th century, were the most ruthless accumulators of…