«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

AT 20, AN AGE WHEN MOST young men are interested in collecting music and girlfriends, paper scion Peter Brant began buying Andy Warhols. The first piece he picked up, in 1967, was a drawing of a Campbell’s soup can, which cost him $500. A few months later, he acquired a painting called for $5,000. “That was a lot of money back then,” says Brant, who was spending the earnings on a $10,000 gift from his grandfather that he had invested. “A Cadillac cost $3,500.”

Today, Warhol’s work fetches exponentially more, and Brant’s collection has become one of the most extensive in private hands, comprised of masterworks like and . Starting this month and running through the summer, the result of Brant’s 45 years of fascination with the artist will be on display at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, his museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. He and his wife, supermodel Stephanie Seymour, live across the street in a rambling stone estate with their children, Peter Jr., Harry and Lily. (Allison Brant, one of his five children from his first marriage to Sandra Brant, is the foundation’s director.)

-Wall Street Journal
 April 23 2013