Among other things he was a successful author, an avid art-collector and a generous host.
The German-born millionaire, womanizer, photographer, art collector and man-about-globe had followed the fast-living course of his life to its end: Better to go out with a bang than with a whimper (Sachs was believed to have Alzheimer's disease).
What self-respecting art collector would hang a portrait of Fido next to a Picasso?
America's ambassador, Joseph Davies, was an idle, gullible, Stalin-loving art collector.
And the art collector himself, drinking single-malt scotch, wearing Lobb loafers, lounging on a Michel Frank sofa in his second home in Aspen.
Gregarious, engaging and comfortable in seven languages, David cultivated relationships with the likes of dealer Kahnweiler and billionaire art collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, who bought works by Picasso, Kandinsky and Italian futurist Giacomo Balla.
The gift was established by a major gift given Syracuse by Robert Menschel, a Syracuse graduate, who made his fortune at Goldman Sachs and is a well-known New York philanthropist and art collector.
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Nowadays, as Gates rolls out his ever-expanding ideas for Dorchester, he's also ping-ponging to museum shows, art fairs and collector dinners the world over as befits an emerging artist on the cusp of superstardom.
As a business owner, art collector and someone who has a passion for bedazzling, unique, art-centric interiors, I was utterly disappointed when I started buying art 11 years ago.
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Fred Singer, 44, is an art collector and former AOL executive who is now chief executive of two technology companies: Anystream, an on-demand-video company, and Echo360, which uploads university lectures to students.
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