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How to build a US$60m art trove while staying within your means
Heinz and Ruthe Eppler, on the advice of a museum curator, bought the best works they could afford. Their art collection tells a new story about American abstraction
Light Mechanic (1960) by Franz Kline, estimated at US$20 million, is the star of the Eppler collection at the Christie's auction in November. The Epplers paid US$900,000 - a steep price in 1985 - for this 8-foot-tall canvas by the master of muscular black strokes on white ground.
PHOTO: CHRISTIE'S
New York
WHEN Heinz and Ruthe Eppler began buying modern art in the late 1970s, the rookie collectors took the advice of a local museum curator: Buy the best works you can afford.
It turned out to be a good investment strategy. A group of 27 paintings, sculptures, and works on...
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