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Collectors' Roundtable


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Dr. Hubert von Sonnenburg discussing X-rays of two El Greco paintings.

For Collectors' Roundtable Members (see our membership page), IFAR organizes intimate tours of private collections and institutions.

Over the years these have included the collections of: Arthur Altschul; Daniel Shapiro and Agnes Gund; Ronald Lauder; Leon Levy and Shelby White; Wynn Kramarsky, Si and Victoria Newhouse, and Ann Tennenbaum and Thomas H. Lee. The Roundtable has also taken private tours of the conservation labs of the Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, and Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.

 
Recent Collectors' Roundtable Events

2006

Visit to the Home of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee

 
2005

Private Tour of the Museum of Modern Art's Conservation Lab

Led by James Coddington, the Agnes Gund Chief Conservator, MoMA.
Dr. Hubert von Sonnenburg discussing X-rays of two El Greco paintings.
 

2004

Private Tour Victoria and Si Newhouse Collection Visit to the Collection of Victoria
and Si Newhouse



The late Dr. Hubert von Sonnenburg, Chairman of Paintings Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, led members of the Collectors' Roundtable on a private tour of the Museum's galleries and the Paintings Conservation Center.

June 2001 von Sonnenburg tour
June 2001 von Sonnenburg tour

The Collectors' Roundtable also went behind-the-scenes of the Conservation Center of the NYU Institute of Fine Arts with Professor Margaret (Peggy) Holben Ellis, then Center Chairman. A world-renowned specialist for works on paper, Professor Ellis treated Roundtable Members to an intimate lesson in connoisseurship and conservation.


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