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How Auckland Art Gallery suddenly scored 15 modern masterpieces

How Auckland Art Gallery suddenly scored 15 modern masterpieces

One of America’s richest entrepreneurs left $167 million worth of art to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. The question on everyone’s lips is: why New Zealand?

Elizabeth Fortescue

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It was one of the most fabulous apartments in the world, boasting the kind of art you’d see up the road at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Julian Hart Robertson jnr’s long-time family eyrie had seven bedrooms and covered the entire 27th floor of Hampshire House, a New York architectural icons on Central Park South.

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