People / 11 profiles

A collection is
someone’s story.

Collectors, couples and patrons. Read the lives individually, then follow the connections.

01 / Patronage

Peggy Guggenheim

A collection with the door open

Venice · New YorkRead story →

02 / Exhibitions

Edik Natanov

A collection enters the room

Russian avant-garde · Museum projectsRead story →

03 / Giving

Dorothy & Herbert Vogel

Living with art. Then letting it go.

New York · United StatesRead story →

04 / Preservation

George Costakis

The long life of the avant-garde

Moscow · ThessalonikiRead story →

05 / Modernism

Sergei Shchukin

A private eye, a public reunion

Moscow · ParisRead story →

06 / Modernism

Ivan Morozov

The room as a collecting idea

Moscow · ParisRead story →

07 / Modernism

Mikhail Morozov

Two brothers, distinct choices

Moscow · French and Russian artRead story →

08 / Museums

Ernst & Hildy Beyeler

From a shared collection to a foundation

Riehen · SwitzerlandRead story →

09 / Museums

Norton Simon

An eye across centuries

Pasadena · United StatesRead story →

10 / Museums

Isabella Stewart Gardner

A house for a public imagination

Boston · United StatesRead story →

11 / Patronage

Agnes Gund

A collector’s voice in the archive