Philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau's $400 million art trove goes to auction
Months after her death at 102, about 120 artworks from the major New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau s estate will hit the auction block at So...
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Months after her death at 102, about 120 artworks from the major New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau s estate will hit the auction block at So...
Landau, whose discerning eye and aesthetic curiosity made her a fixture in the art world from the 1980s onward, began collecting after receiving an insurance settlement for a jewellery heist at her home
A jewelry heist in her Manhattan home spurred her to start one of America’s premier collections, shown in a private Queens museum and much of it donated to the Whitney.
Emily Fisher Landau used a Lloyd’s insurance settlement from a spectacular jewel heist in her apartment to fund what would become one of America’s premier collections of contemporary art.