A MUST-SEE for ART LOVERS:
Herb & Dorothy (2008) Directed by Megumi Sasaki proves that you don’t have to be a Rockefeller to collect Art.
Herb & Dorothy is one of the most fascinating documenties I’ve ever seen. It’s about Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a working class couple who had amassed a priceless art collection in their tiny one-bedroom apartment in New York City. They had no formal training in art collecting. They bought art the way any amateur collector shops: for the love of the individual pieces and the thrill of a good deal. But you don’t accumulate a priceless collection of anything by accident. Herb and Dorothy developed a methodical system for scouting, assessing, and purchasing art. When it came to mastering their hobby, the Vogels were self-trained professionals.
Herb Vogel never earned more than $23,000 a year. Born and raised in Harlem, Vogel worked for the post office in Manhattan. He spent nearly 50 years living in a 450-square-foot one-bedroom apartment with his wife, Dorothy, a reference librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library. They lived frugally. They didn’t travel. They ate TV dinners. Aside from a menagerie of pets, Herb and Dorothy had just one indulgence: art. But their passion for collecting turned them into unlikely celebrities, working-class heroes in a world of Manhattan elites.
While their coworkers had no idea, the press noticed. The New York Times labeled the Vogels the “In Couple” of New York City. They counted minimalist masters Richard Tuttle and Donald Judd among their close friends. And in just four decades, they assembled one of the most important private art collections of the 20th century, stocking their tiny apartment floor-to-ceiling with Chuck Close sketches, paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, and sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy. Today, more than 1,000 of the works they purchased are housed in the National Gallery, a collection a curator there calls “literally priceless.” J. Carter Brown, the museum’s former director, referred to the collection as “a work of art in itself.”
As I said, it’s a fascinating story and a bit of a fairytale.
Source: an article written By Jed Lipinski for Mentalfloss.com
Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vma2T5luy08
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