"There was a massive amount of publicity about the painting of the gold boxes during the Olympics and Paralympics, " he says.

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It begins with pieces from "Freeze, " which include some Donald-Judd-influenced Minimalist colored boxes and the first spot painting, the dripped paint revealing the hand of the artist himself.

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Boxes with rare shapes and elaborate painting cost the most.

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In his apartment, he has a painting by Robert Kipniss, an artist Berman admired, as well as two boxes full of postcards of Renaissance paintings that Berman encouraged him to collect.

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