Ms. Reist mentioned the California collectors Eli and Edythe Broad, but said she couldn't divulge other names.
"People described you as 'very married, '" said Ms. Reist, who had separated from her husband, an artist, in 1999.
"Our conversation that evening was about walking along Madison Avenue, " Ms. Reist remembered.
"I buy all my clothes in thrift shops, " noted Ms. Reist as they sat in his Upper East Side pied-a-terre.
Mr. Freeman, still very married, asked the father of the woman celebrating her anniversary, an old friend, for more information about Ms. Reist.
For Valentine's Day, Ms. Reist is having a copy made of Mr. Freeman's ram's head cuff link, the one he suspects he lost on Madison.
But that's actually what I wanted to discuss with Inge Reist, the Center's director, when we met recently in her well-lighted office overlooking Central Park.
Mr. Freeman and Ms. Reist were to meet again at mutual friends' 20th wedding anniversary party in 2007, and at that same Hudson Valley home again in 2009.
"From the Medicis to the Rockefellers, " Ms. Reist explained festively.
"Provenance is the alternate history of art, " Ms. Reist explained.
Turns out her older brother and sister-in-law had lived on a boat for 35 years and Ms. Reist had sailed with them in New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and Alaska.
He was told that Ms. Reist's father had been a medievalist and comparative literature professor at Columbia, and that his daughter and Ms. Reist had been best friends since they attended kindergarten at the Chapin School.
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