Saturday, June 21, 2008

Advice to collectors


Keep your left up.

“His nose looked broken, like a boxer’s. He had dyed hair and cheap shoes, like a bodyguard. If he walked into my gallery, I wouldn’t have sold him a painting.”
Art dealer Laszlo von Vertes describing the man who bid $95 million to purchase Picasso’s Dora Maar au Chat at Sotheby’s.