A few collectors - Pierre Le-tan

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• Funny and whimsical.
• There are wonderful asides ... It is also poignant. -The New York Times An utterly charming book by beloved Parisian artist Pierre Le-Tan, filled with dazzling illustrations and intriguing tales about often eccentric art collectors.
• Le-Tan, known for designing New Yorker magazine covers and collaborations with fashion houses, summons up memories of inveterate collectors in this lavishly illustrated volume.
• He evokes fascinating, sometimes troubled figures through insightful and curious portraits.
• With seventy of his distinctive pen and ink drawings--in vibrant color with meticulous cross-hatching-A Few Collectors opens a window onto the vast or minuscule world created by collectors out of a mix of extravagance and obstinacy.
• It recounts encounters in Paris, the C�te d'Azur, North Africa, London and New York, where Le-Tan's subjects have amassed a range of treasures.
• Some involve famed figures like former Louvre Museum director Pierre Rosenberg.
• Others are insolvent aristocrats, princes of film and fashion, expatriate dandies, and flat-out obsessive eccentrics.
• Le-Tan devotes perhaps his finest chapter to himself.