at home in the Maybeck house(Guy Hyde Chick) of Foster Goldman, art collector

Visited again with Foster Goldman, at home, where we viewed new acquisitions, and he told me about his adventures with the exhibition in Vienna and in Berlin of the surreal piece which he in part carried on the plane and put in his luggage.  Its companion is in the MOMA, NYC and they will not let it travel in the 80 years it has been there; we know it as the "fur cup" by the same artist.  His luggage was lost, and then found, and the piece delivered safely to the museum, and it is now on display in Berlin.  The other news is that he has purchased two pieces from Vintage in Petaluma, that baroque porcelain, about which he has little information, but which he cherishes, and was the centerpiece with an orchid in it, on the table.  The new painting from the same source reminds him of a Wayne Thiebauld, was painted in Puerto Rico in the 1940s.  He has hired a young assistant whom I meet who is cataloguing his collection.   He is off to the Asia Week in NYC, is searching for an apartment for the period, and shows me the piece he had removed from the Institute in Minneapolis, which Sotheby's flew out to claim and which merits three pages in its catalogue for the sale on the 18th of September.  See www.sotheby's.com

We go for a Thai lunch at a tiny spot nearby; I have chicken satay which is fresh and tender with real peanut sauce and a nice little cucumber with vinagrette salad. He has a traditional pork and noodle plate. 

 When we return, we continue our discussion until his assistant arrives.  He delivers a parting gift, one of a 50 edition Andy Warhol soupcan...?????!!!!! and says "not to open it" but to find a companion plastic container like his own, to display it!  Until next time.