Si Newhouse Built One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections. Tobias Meyer Wants to Sell It to You.

The whole collection is like this, Meyer explained, never the easy works, always the tough ones, the ones Si could get passionate about before anyone. Bill Acquavella struggled for years to sell a late Lucian Freud, a nude self-portrait, a tough one. When Si saw it, he pounced, and it’s still in the collection, one of the many knockouts yet to come to market.

What’s remarkable is that Si did sell so much of the collection…