Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best

The volume is a concise and complete illustrated history of Norton Simon's Odyssey, chronicling his acquisitions from his first 300 dollars purchase through more 1700 separate transactions The reader glimpses Simon's intriguing and charismatic personality and gains insight into the collector and his collection. A fully-illustrated catalog of all of Simon's acquisitions (more than 8.000 works of art) and deaccessions provides an invaluable tool for scholars. The book draws from the extensive Norton Simon Museum archives and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues, art dealers, and museum professionals, as well as unpublished conversations with, and writings by Norton Simon.