There are those whose tastes mold institutions, like cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder , who bought his first drawing, a work by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele , with money from his bar mitzvah and went on to fund and found the Neue Galerie New York to showcase German and Austrian art.

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Unlike Mr. Lauder, who has put much of his collection on public display in his New York museum, the Neue Galerie, Mr. Black has kept his art close to home.

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Just as successful was one of the Egon Schiele gouaches that sold to benefit Ronald Lauder's jewel-like little Neue Galerie in New York, and a roughly hewn head in wood carved in 1916-1917 by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, a German Expressionist sculptor.

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