“I feel like this is a whole different ballgame,” he says. “This is a great collection. I was practically a nervous wreck for two weeks when I was waiting for [her family] to decide who [they were] going to give it to [to sell.]” The collection, he continues, “is a really special group. She didn’t care about the name of the artist, she cared about the beauty of the object—and that’s just something that’s a fact.”
Diamond agrees.
“One thing I loved later in life was going to museum and art exhibitions of all kinds with my mom,” he says. “If we’d see something she was less than captivated by, she could speed walk through a major art museum like no one you’d ever seen. She was not interested in wasting her time.”
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