Then in 1993, while visiting a gallery in Beverly Hills, he met an art dealer--a striking brunette named Esthella Provas--whom he invited to become his art consultant.
Allen and Gehry met early on to talk about how to design an institution for an anti-institutional art form, and Gehry was hooked by Allen's excitement.
"I selected the Met as the way to share this collection because I feel that it's essential that Cubism - and the art that follows it, for that matter - be seen and studied within the collections of one of the greatest encyclopaedic museums in the world, " he said.