Many of our readers will already have bought a painting, but for others the idea of buying a picture — of buying a work of art — is still unfamiliar.
So we have asked those who went before us in collecting to talk to us, in the hope that what they say will be of use to anyone about to begin a collection, or already building one.
Umeno Takashi, director of the Umeno Memorial Gallery | Collecting too is an art: searching for the beauty that lies fallen
Umeno Takashi, director of the Umeno Memorial Gallery | Collecting too is an art: searching for the beauty that lies fallen
Umeno Takashi says he was never a rich man, only an ordinary salaried collector. He talks at length about what started him collecting, and about the founding of the Umeno Memorial Gallery.
Hori Ryokei, director of the Kashiwa Watakushi Museum | Speaking out from the individual: one museum for every town
Hori Ryokei, director of the Kashiwa Watakushi Museum | Speaking out from the individual: one museum for every town
A collector who turned his own house into a museum. Hori Ryokei on why he refuses to chase profit, and on passing on the pleasure of collecting and of looking at pictures.
A collector of 1,300 hanging scrolls | Shimomura Tamio
A collector of 1,300 hanging scrolls | Shimomura Tamio
“As Benkei collected a thousand swords, I shall collect a thousand hanging scrolls.” Shimomura Tamio, a salaried man who gathered 1,300 scrolls in twenty-two years, talks with his wife Sawako about how it was done.
山本冬彦氏 | 今のビジネスマンにも〈絵画を買う〉楽しみを知ってもらいたい
山本冬彦氏 | 今のビジネスマンにも〈絵画を買う〉楽しみを知ってもらいたい
今回は現役のビジネスマン・ＯＬの人たちに絵を買う楽しみをしってもらいたいと、普及活動を展開されている、山本冬彦氏にご登場願います。
Fukutomi Taro, founder of the Hollywood cabarets | Decide your measure, and decide it clearly
Fukutomi Taro, founder of the Hollywood cabarets | Decide your measure, and decide it clearly
The “cabaret king” Fukutomi Taro collected pictures for more than fifty years — going without food, and without shoes, to buy them. He also gives a young dealer some hard-won advice on trade.
Yamashita Yuji | Meeting a work one to one
Yamashita Yuji | Meeting a work one to one
The art historian Yamashita Yuji buys the work of young artists nobody yet knows, as an expression of respect. He talks about what changes when you stop looking and start buying.