Living with Matisse, Picasso, and the New Decade explores one of
the most ambitious and idiosyncratic - yet largely unknown -
private collections of 20th-century Western art, and its complex,
charismatic creator Theodor `Teto' Ahrenberg (1912-89). Containing
over 6,000 artworks acquired between the late 1940s and late 1980s,
the collection featured, throughout its dramatic existence, key
works by artists as distinguished and diverse as Picasso, Matisse,
Chagall, Le Corbusier, Olle Baertling, Sam Francis, OEyvind
Fahlstroem, Tadeusz Kantor, Lucio Fontana, Christo, Jean Tinguely
and Niki de Saint Phalle. Ahrenberg's ever-renewing collection was
shaped by his commitment to the changing notion of contemporary
art, his dedication to young and marginalized artists, his
intuition, and a self-declared conviction that he was not merely a
collector but a `catalyst' - one who facilitated exhibitions,
collaborations and commissions, and who employed art as an
instrument against conservatism and complacency. Ahrenberg
passionately believed in personally meeting those artists whose
works he acquired, and he accordingly established rich, long-term
friendships that transcended the conventional artist-collector
dynamic. Living with Matisse, Picasso, and the New Decade, the
first monograph on Ahrenberg's fascinating collection and life,
draws on a wealth of personal correspondence between Ahrenberg and
`his' artists, and presents much previously unpublished visual
material including artworks, photographs and architectural plans
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