Called "The Age of Bronze," it is by Rodin and happens to be the oldest piece in the collection, a life-size, perfectly formed male nude in a pose that is both pensive and slightly pained.
Barnes, borrowing liberally from an account in Elizabeth Wilson's collection "Shostakovich: A Life Remembered," shows the composer's interrogator, Zakrevksy, questioning him in the time-honored Socratic manner that suggests no need for evidence, since the case is already closed.
Mrs Kramlich sees their collection as a "life-long learning experience", and she and her husband consult with different experts in the field.
Daniel Spungen, a board member and spokesman for the foundation, said recently that his acquisition of the collection represented a "life-changing" experience for him.
In November a piece from his collection — "Perceval," a life-size bronze sculpture of a draft horse pulling a cart of giant phallic-shaped squash, by Sarah Lucas — will go on view at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, by Central Park.
In England, the Royal National Theatre was performing his latest play, "Broken Glass," in repertory; in America, Nicholas Hytner was starting to film "The Crucible"; and Miller's collection "Homely Girl, A Life: And Other Stories" was published.
For a collection about life inside a psychiatric ward, Luxury of the Dispossessed shies away from words like "madness", "insane" and "ill".
A wealthy family in England in 1250 might have had three books in its possession: a Bible, a collection of prayers and a life of the saints – this modestly sized library nevertheless costing as much as a cottage.
