Living With Matisse, Picasso And The New Decade. Theodor Ahrenberg And His Collections

Theodor "Teto" Ahrenberg (1912-89) created one of the most ambitious and idiosyncratic — yet largely unknown — private collections of European modern art. With nearly a thousand works, it featured established masters such as Matisse, Picasso and Chagall as well as pioneering younger artists including Tadeusz Kantor, Olle Baertling and Jean Tinguely. Controversially confiscated by the Swedish government in 1962 and subsequently dispersed, the collection was rebuilt by Ahrenberg in an even more progressive manner that championed artists of the post-war avant-garde such as Christo, Lucio Fontana, Arman and Niki de Saint Phalle.
Drawing on a wealth of visual material and correspondence, much previously unpublished, this book is the first to explore comprehensively Ahrenberg's collections and his colourful life with art and artists.