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The Collector explores the 46-year career of Allan Stone, the famed New York City gallery owner and art collector. Producer and director Olympia Stone reveals her father’s compulsive collecting genius while telling the parallel story of his lifelong journey through the art world from the 1950s to 2006. Viewers are taken on an extraordinary path inside one man’s obsessive submersion
in art and its influence on the artists, art dealers and family members with whom he worked and lived.
| Catalog Number: MC-735 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Documentary |
| Copyright: 2007 |
Length: 62 minutes |
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DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 880198073594 |
| Label: Blackchair Collection |
Notes: “…fascinating for its nonstop parade of significant 20th-century art, and for Jason Graves’ playfull
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Collector, The: Allan Stone’s Life in Art directed by
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The Collector explores the 46-year career of Allan Stone, the famed New York City gallery owner and art collector. Producer and director Olympia Stone reveals her father’s compulsive collecting ...
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2009-03-12 Time Out New York
By Raven Snook
Only a child of Allan Stone, the famed New York City gallerist who died last December, could have directed such a loving tribute to him. Olympia Stone, one of the subject’s six daughters, chronicles her father’s disordered life and his dizzying array of everything: art (multiple De Koonings), artifacts (mummies) and junk (vitamins). A Harvard-educated lawyer who defied his family by entering the art world in the ’60s, the eccentric impresario championed painters like Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Estes. Although the film glosses over his pathology, it’s an informative, amusing glimpse at a one-of-a-kind character.
| 2008-10-24 The New York Times
By Matt Zoller Seitz
A Famously Sharp Eye, and Appetite, for Artistic Masterpieces
The title of the documentary “The Collector” undersells its subject, the influential New York art gallery owner Allan Stone, who died in December after a long career spent introducing the world to his discoveries.
As depicted by the filmmaker, Mr. Stone’s daughter Olympia, the man’s taste in art was breathtakingly eclectic, from African fetish pieces and cigar store Indians to works by Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Wayne Thiebaud and John Chamberlain. His urge to acquire and display his belongings was so insistent that it crowded the rest of his life, literally.
When not interviewing Mr. Stone, the artists he championed and the patrons and critics who appreciated his enthusiasm (including Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for The New York Times), Ms. Stone takes her camera through Mr. Stone’s Westchester County home, so packed with notable items that it might be a secret annex of the Smithsonian.
Mr. Stone’s compulsion was not without unfortunate consequences. His wife and six daughters could feel marginalized by the objects piled around them, and you wish this generally rosy movie had explored those feelings more pointedly. But the film is still fascinating for its nonstop parade of significant 20th-century art, and for Jason Graves’s playfully jumbled, sometimes borderline-cacophonous jazz score, which could be the music Mr. Stone heard in his head as he wandered the globe in search of one more acquisition.
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