Collecting Art Part 2: Visiting Museums

La Chua Trail. Painting by Eleanor Blair
Serious collectors that I know are focused on the art.
They are not looking for a decorative item,
or a good investment.
There is some aspect of the work itself that has hooked them.
Eleanor Blair
1 - Introduction
The first original Dali painting I saw was Seven Apparitions of Lenin on a Piano at the Beaubourg Museum in Paris as it was then called. My Beaux Arts student ID card gave me free entrance to art museums and I made liberal use of it, frequenting them freely. What surprised me the first time I saw this painting in person was the size of the painting. It was quite large and I expected something rather small. Books don’t give you a sense of size and reading dimensions is not the same as standing face to face with the artwork. However what impressed me more than the size was the attention to detail with which Dali painted it. I was studying painting at the time and I could clearly see from the facture that Dali had used small sable brushes...