Dafoe is in the business of collecting moments of human value – anticipation, beauty, obsession, anger – and he amasses them like an art collector might accumulate paintings.
In fact, France has a small annual wealth tax not because it raises much revenue but because it allows the government to ask its citizens how they were able to accumulate paintings, houses and other forms of wealth if the taxable incomes they declared were so modest.
The gallery accumulated 60 paintings (many by the same artists who worked for Boydell) commissioned to illustrate a new edition of David Hume's The History of Great Britain.
Believing that collectors should acquire art being produced in their own time and then hold on to it, giving the public access but never selling, Mr. Neuberger accumulated hundreds of paintings and sculptures by Milton Avery, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and others, becoming one of America's leading art patrons.
While art historians have analyzed and classified paintings based on the accumulated literature research on aesthetics, there were limitations of interpreting the features that are not visually apparent, because their subjective opinions have been expressed.
Owner Stefan Prahmstahler has also accumulated an impressive collection of artwork that includes paintings by Picasso, Klimt and Klee.
Focusing on instances when Willem de Kooning transferred dynamic configurations from paintings to drawings and from drawings to paintings, this absorbing exhibition reveals how the artist treated his accumulated ideas as reference tools to be occasionally explored further later.
The Morses became good friends with Dal?nd his wife, Gala, as they accumulated hundreds of his works from all periods, including the paintings "The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus" (1959), "The Ecumenical Council" (1960) and "The Hallucinogenic Toreador" (1970).
During David Morse's twenty year tenure as Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, the couple accumulated a substantial collection of late 19th and early 20th century French Graphics and paintings which are now among the Zimmerli's holdings.
While her family arts collection does not match that of the Vatican, it is among the largest accumulated by European aristocrats, ranging from works acquired more than five centuries ago to several Impressionists to more modern paintings bought by the duchess.
