Other avid collectors include Barbra Streisand, who was first drawn to the artist's paintings in the 1970s when she was building a house in Art Deco style.

WSJ: In the Art World, Women on the Verge

Although Pierre Matisse's idea of a perfect weekend was hanging paintings in his gallery in the art-deco Fuller Building on Madison Avenue, we learn little about his life outside.

ECONOMIST: Post-Impressionists

He's got a modest three-room office, decorated with paintings of Airstream trailers, on the sixth floor of an office building near Grand Central Station.

FORBES: Lord of the Rigs

During their tour, the visitors were also able to note that work still continues on the roof, in the main hall crowned by a dome, whose paintings are still being restored, and that the roof tiles on the southeast wing of the building are being replaced.

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