HOLLYWOOD ARENSBERG/ AVANT

Following the Armory Show of 1913, Louise and Walter Arensberg began assembling one of the most important private collections of art in the United States, as well as the worlds largest private library of works by and about the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon. By th e time Louise and Walter diedin 1953 and 1954, respectivelythey had acquired some four thousand rare books and manuscripts and nea rly one thousand works of art, including world-class specimens of Cubism, Surrealism, and Primitivism, the bulk of Marcel Duchamps oeuvre, and h...[Read more]