JUDITH RICHARDS: So there's a responsibility to the legacy. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Agnew's is a different kind of firm, because it traveled through seven hands in the same family, so you have ayou know, I have an even bigger responsibility to make sure that whomever I hand it off toyou know, that they have the same appreciation for it as an asset and don't need it as a source of income. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So, saw them, bought them; in one case, I'll give credit to someone else because it's his discovery of the lot, but I would see them and buy them and then, you know, we would basically spend time working on them. So, you know, we've had the gamut; you know, we've had the gamut. CLIFFORD SCHORER: by the time I was 19, my business was very successful. I stopped dead in my tracks, and I stared at it, and my partner was like, "Oh!". Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. Shop affordable wall art to hang in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls aren't welcome. So, I lost it. CLIFFORD SCHORER: You know, that's very frustrating. He collects in that era; he collects Antwerp painters, buys great things. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Sure. JUDITH RICHARDS: Is this partly an interest in history? CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah, that's like $100,000 to half a million, and that's not the weakest. But there is a long-term plan that the museum and I are talking about for the things they want to keep. And we would oftenyou know, we would find that in even a five-word conversation we understood what each of our aesthetics was and, you know, how we felt about different things that we were potentially going to bid against each other on. And I left and I started the company. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I wentI had a pretty bad high school experience. [They laugh.]. [00:04:06], CLIFFORD SCHORER: So the entry point at that time was sort of the 10 to $25,000 per picture, and. Clifford passed away on month day 1984, at age 67 at death place, North Carolina. So I wrote to her several times and said, you know, "Is this Crespi? Do you get, CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, no. I would go to HtelDrouot and spend the entire day, day after day after day. The problem is, I've always had to forget about all of the things in my path until recently. I mean, I think that right nowso what we did in the interim is, we did this portraiture show which brought in, CLIFFORD SCHORER: It brought in Kehinde Wiley, Lucien Freud, and, CLIFFORD SCHORER: you know, otheryou know, Kehinde Wiley's. It was a good job at Best Products. And so, you know, obviously this is a man with probably a military education in Germany. My grandfather was also lobbying hard, saying, "Go back to school." So, anyway, you know, then, at some point, I fixated on the idea that maybe I would do something a little more serious in the art market. There was a Strozzi thatI was looking at Strozzi, and I was trying to figure this Strozzi painting out that I had discovered at a little auction. JUDITH RICHARDS: Well, let's remember to get back to that. And they probably bought it the week before, because the trade was very different back then. There were things that were not really museum pieces, but they were very valuable things. And I could actually get reasonably good examples. [00:45:59]. So that'syou know, the reality is though, that that painting will never come my way, so I have toto go back to this question, has my philosophy about this changed in the course of it? And I had to take it into various pieces. So of theof the monochromes, the earlier pieces, I only have maybe 20 pieces left. ", CLIFFORD SCHORER: Because there's just crates and crates and crates. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more, designed and sold by independent artists around the world. No, it was a Saint Frances being comforted by the angels. We went to the apartment, and I bought the painting, and at the same time, the familythis was from one of the largest commissions of the 17th century, and the last two paintings were still in the hands of a man whose name was the same as the man who signed the commissioning documents 400 years before. Have there been particular trips that have been important to you oror in another way, how does travel impact your collecting? October 16, 2020; Beef And Broccoli. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Sobecause I downsized my companies. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So, eventually, I was accepted to a few colleges in Boston. [00:38:00]. [00:24:00], JUDITH RICHARDS: So going back to the export porcelain. So they were the cleanest book of business I've ever seen relative to the Holocaust. [00:26:00]. But it hammered down; I lost it, you know, and thought no more of it. He had that very sort ofhe had an idea about using modern architecture in all his buildings. And eventually we agreed to part friends. I mean, also I thought Boston was the most European city in America. JUDITH RICHARDS: So have you been collecting in some other, noncompetitive area? And one professor in particular became a very close friend. JUDITH RICHARDS: It sounds likegone through all the money. If you lose it for price or other matters, so be it. I did put them in boxes and move them to deep storage. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Only well after that. So, it's the, CLIFFORD SCHORER: it's the hunt, the pursuit, the discovery, the investigation, the scholarship, the writing. I mean, I didn't specifically go to try to find the dealer who made a market in Chinese in Paris. And often. And he started me on collecting, actually. And I must say, I was a little disingenuous with the employer about my age, and that came back to bite me later. He says, "No, I didn't." So, you know, we met, we discussed it, and it was far more complex than I thought it would be. And they had to water it with a watering spray gun. I love that, CLIFFORD SCHORER: They're building brand-new buildings, yeah. previous 1 2 next sort by previous 1 2 next * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Winslow Homer. I spoke to others who came to buy for their trade. I worked very hard on the programs. CLIFFORD SCHORER: A 110-foot whale, very big specimen. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I would not have looked for anyone else. [00:48:00]. JUDITH RICHARDS: What was happening with your brother all these years? JUDITH RICHARDS: Did you get a sense of how hehow he spent his time collecting versus what he did professionally to earn income and how he balanced that? [Laughs.] I just, you know. And I thought, you know, We should buy that Cezanne, because it's one of his most Old Master-y Cezannes, and try to tie it in with [Nicolas] Poussin. So I bought the picture, took it to the Worcester Art Museum. New York , NY 10010, Washington, D.C. Headquarters and Research Center. Yes, before that, I was not actively selling anything, because the problem is, the things that you buy that are your sort of orphan children, you often can't sell them to the workhouse for very much money, so they're not going to produce much in terms of the next purchase. Was it something you had been looking for as an opportunity? Winslow Homer Key West, Hauling Anchor, 1903. CLIFFORD SCHORER: That would've been a little bit early. I think there are 3- or 400,000 photographs in our archive, and if, JUDITH RICHARDS: This is the archive that's been acquired by the National. [00:20:00], So I'm looking at it, I'm looking at it, and I'm reading the label, and the label says it's King Seuthes III of 740 BC or something. You know, the average home really can't take a panel painting because of the climate changes, you know, the humidity changes. And the. JUDITH RICHARDS: yeah, but it's so different to really try to do it yourself, JUDITH RICHARDS: read about it in a book. I mean, there wereit was such a different time. So I would say that's probably the only piece of advice I can have, is that you have to be much more object-focused, learn as much as you can about that object, and try as much as possible to ignore the catalogue entry that shows Chairman Mao by Andy Warhol next to Leonardo da Vinci next to the so-called lot that you're about to buy, and draws these amazing marketing inferences that, you know, you will be like the Medici if you buy this thing. So my grandparents, whom I adoredmy grandfather and grandmotherthey lived on Long Island, CLIFFORD SCHORER: They lived on Long Island in a town called Freeport. We put it on a trailer. JUDITH RICHARDS: When youin those early years, did you have a goal? And then we. JUDITH RICHARDS: So he's the director ofthe managing director, CLIFFORD SCHORER: He's director. [Affirmative.] JUDITH RICHARDS: Yes. JUDITH RICHARDS: Restorations that are hidden? Without synthetic fertilizers, it's impossible to feed the human race. And by the time I was born, he was deceased and the family was bankrupt. JUDITH RICHARDS: Climate-controlled art storage? They were very, very strong. You know, et cetera. Well, that's because it's a posthumous portrait. So, you know, as you say, you know, as we were talking about yesterday, that intersection of conception and craft. Death record, obituary, funeral notice and information about the deceased person. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yes, I mean, did I read articles? We just have a little more time today perhaps, if you want to take more time? They had good people; they had good people. JUDITH RICHARDS: When did thisand so that's. So, you know, it was quite ait was quite a big disparity in age. If I saw something in the shop, I would buy it. You know? CLIFFORD SCHORER: I mean, especially lesser objects. JUDITH RICHARDS: Are there specific publication projects that you would be interested in seeing them do? Then they have these mosaics from Antioch. It's more like I'll find a print after a painting. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. And if I had any role in thatthat they're now actually spending this big endowment they have to buy pictures and to buy art, that's exciting to me because, you know, there was a long period of time when the acquisitions were very modest, because there wasn't a thorough process to get a big purchase through. [00:20:00]. JUDITH RICHARDS: What's the name of the curator at the Met again who did the Gossart? My grandfather's collectionmy great-grandfather's collectionwas in the millions of stamps. JUDITH RICHARDS: Or acquire specifically in conversation with a museum curator for the institution. JUDITH RICHARDS: You talked about the label just saying, "Private Collector." [00:30:00], CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. Have you thought about that issue, debated it, considered where you stand on it? Pronunciation of Clifford J. Schorer with 1 audio pronunciation and more for Clifford J. Schorer. JUDITH RICHARDS: Yeah. In the old art, it's a little easier, because you don't have living artists advocating for, you know, those sorts of things. JUDITH RICHARDS: And the insurance? You know, that was the biggest problem. JUDITH RICHARDS: Is there anything else you want to talk about in terms of future aspirations? CLIFFORD SCHORER: Gallery exhibition, or that take the gallery in ayou know, in the direction that Anthony wants us to steer. He would run around to continental auctions back before the internet, and now the kids and I do a lot. Lived: 32806 days = 89 years. Come to it if you want. The door is closed; we buzz you in. Do you have a year that you, CLIFFORD SCHORER: I kind of had a hard stop at 1650 in Rome, but in Naples, I took it right to 1680. They want to hear what's the number and, you know, "When can you pay me?" Like a Boule chandelier. [Laughs.] [Laughs.]. But for me, it's the combination of the conception and the craft, so the conception is very important to me; knowing that [Guido] Reni stole his figure from the Apollo Belvedere because it was here when he was there is interesting to me and Iyou know, to find that out, if I didn't know it before, either by accident or by some kind person sharing it with me, I'myou know, it adds a layer to my experience of the art that's different from my aesthetic experience of the art. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Clifford Schorer, 2018. CLIFFORD SCHORER: But I think, in the past, they've been pretty good in the most important areas. So there came moments when I would be flush with cash because I did something, you know, reasonably successful, and then I would take all that money and go just sink it faster than, you knowprudently, but I would sink it. But, yeah, and there was a certain part of ityou know, my world hadI had these warehouses full with things all the time. I mean, thatand also, you know, when you getwhen you go to the Old Master market, if you really want to focus on something, you really can't go to any tertiary auction houses. So, you know, it's the conversation at the cocktail party, I suppose [laughs], but, you know, maybe not the cocktail party some people want to go to. And she's, you know, "Chiuso, chiuso." And, you know, that's a fun game, and it yields some fruit, it really does. I was thinking of something more basic. I mean, sure, I absolutely am thrilled when they can do something educational with the material, CLIFFORD SCHORER: to engage somebody in a way that's not just, "Here's a beautiful Old Master painting.". Robert Clarke, actor. And that's a big question in the art market; you know, having the liability for everything you've ever sold coming back to say, "Wait a minute, this is a fake," or, "This attribution is wrong," or, you know [00:40:00], JUDITH RICHARDS: Or, "This is Nazi loot," and. JUDITH RICHARDS: No, no, no, this is very important, JUDITH RICHARDS: what you were talking about. They were contemporary dealers. I remember he was 90 when he bowled a 300. Relocating to New York, he undertook assignments for Harper's Weekly, among other journals, and enrolled in drawing classes at the National Academy of Design. You talk to them about business; you talk to them about family. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And that'sshe may be retired now. CLIFFORD SCHORER: You know, there wereI would say. So a friend of mine that I had known came to me and said that he thought that the library at Agnew's would be available, and, you know, that was interesting to me. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And these folks were traders. [00:08:03], CLIFFORD SCHORER: Chris Apostle from Sotheby's. They got the Bacon as the plum to borrow the Rembrandt. Just a sense of [laughs], CLIFFORD SCHORER: Oh, in a way. So I went to Spain, and I tried to buy both of the remaining paintings. 1. He just built, I think, the first public museum in Antwerp. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, learning about the Lombard artists, all the Lombard artists, and sort of looking at them and deciding which ones I thought had merit. I wasn'tI didn't have anything approximating a cultural youth. Has that been changing? I am none of the above. Yeah, and, of course, you know, if you think about return on equity, and you're in the business world, you understand that with the inventory turn of a gallery being as slow as it is, buying something and hanging it on the wall is often a very bad business decision. But, yes, I believe so. So I went to the booth, and I talked to them about the Procaccini, and they didn't know who I was, and I basically wanted to keep it that way. You walk in; there's no receptionist. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So, you know, there's still an auction wholesale-to-retail spread more because the presentation is slipshod and fast, and, you know, you're in a group of merchandise that goes across the counter on the same day. So, yeah, they've been very sort of, again, inadvertent mentors. I mean, there are many historical examples of seeing some particular painting in a museum and just standing there for 25 minutes and saying, you know, "I can't believe this painting. We should close the museum tomorrow and give everybody that walks by on the sidewalk $400 and just call it a day, because that's what the budget is. Just one. JUDITH RICHARDS: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Winslow Homer. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So I sold it all. JUDITH RICHARDS: I mean, certainly in the war zone [laughs], I suspect you were on your own. I had probably 65 of them on walls, you know, with these plate holders and, you know, little arrays. "A loaf of bread is more than 29? JUDITH RICHARDS: And issues or concerns about it, too. I love computer languages. I remember that. arugula, potato and green bean salad . But I did buy things that were interesting. JUDITH RICHARDS: Have you ever tried to, or wanted to, learn how to do any of the kinds of ceramic work or painting or whatever yourself to see what's entailed? CLIFFORD SCHORER: early panel paintings in New England, for example. Hasyou've talked about a lot of traveling to discover, to see things that you were going to see, destinations. Yeah, they close rooms. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So now there's really, you know, two sales worth attending. You know, when a good picture arrives into that market, it creates a ripple, and it sells well. And I remember Mrs. Corsini was running around the back of room, actually shouting in the auction room about how outrageously cheap it was and how she was upset about it. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, in Virginia you can get a license at 15. So I had actuallyI was doing something which, in hindsight, was very foolish. Are there other museum committees thatwell, I suppose if you lived in New York, you'd contemplate being part ofbut have there been or are there other opportunities like that you've, CLIFFORD SCHORER: I mean, there would be, CLIFFORD SCHORER: opportunities I think, CLIFFORD SCHORER: yeah. When you collect, does it play any role in what you're thinking about what? They started chatting about art, and then Mr. Phillipson mentioned. JUDITH RICHARDS: Are you meeting other collectors? [Affirmative.] And I'm thinking, Who are these people? People came and visited to see the collection. CLIFFORD SCHORER: If I found a rational market again and if I found great things, I would be right back to it. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Flea markets in Paris. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Maybe, maybe, I don't know. And made their own discoveries. So, yes. We had four years of consultancy by Christopher Kingzett and Julian Agnew, who were running the firm before. [1:02:00], CLIFFORD SCHORER: It's by Antonio de Pereda. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So there are those who were present that were important to me, and there's one figure who was not present who was very important to me. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Think about selling? So what we had to focus on was, Were they 20th-century, or 19th-century with apocryphal marks? I mean, the boothjust one masterpiece after another. [00:16:01]. I mean, you know, he opens the drawers of his metals, and we pull them out, and, you know, it's a great experience. Professor Schorer is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in the start-up acquisition and development of small and mid-sized companies. So a couple months go by, and I get this photo, and I open it up, and it's really wonderful. Clifford celebrated 56th birthday on May 31. So. In 2019, Clifford Schorer, an entrepreneur and art dealer from Boston, stopped by the shop to purchase a last-minute gift. JUDITH RICHARDS: So you're going to thenot stamp and coin auctions, though? If I quit my day job, then I would put an extraordinary amount of undue pressure on the gallery to be earning period by period, and I think that would be to the detriment of the galley. You know, they can figure outso, JUDITH RICHARDS: I think I came across the name Schorer. Winslow Homer. Soon he was a major contributor to such popular magazines as Harper's Weekly. And also, my grandparents wanted me to be a child. I mean, I was programming cash registers at that point, so it was very interesting. CLIFFORD SCHORER: No. I mean, I was a minion. But no, I mean, I can'tI didn't think it was a subjectI understood that it wasthese were products made for the export market. JUDITH RICHARDS: involve yourself in your conversation about this. I mean, I know it's an exciting moment; you start a business. Yeah. Monday-Friday, excluding Federal holidays, by appointment. They were the combat correspondents of their day, traveling and living with soldiers. And my great-grandfather, the folklore iswhether true or not, and I tend to believe itis that he jumped a ship in New York Harbor and swam into Brooklyn, went to a church and got a birth certificate, and became an American. I never thought, frankly, it was a field of complexity enough to warrant even reading about it. It was just books on subjects that interested me. Just collecting as a general habit. [00:50:00], And, you know, Anthony went through the archives and saw this material and knew the artist and apparently, you know, knew people who came to the show and thought it was an amazing show. I mean, I don't obsess over, you know, things that I consider decor in a way. And that's the absent member of the family that had a great influence. JUDITH RICHARDS: Was there a particular person who was your mentor? CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yes. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And I was fine with that because, for me, it was aesthetically pleasing. The Allori that was sold at Northeast Auctioneers, which came from the Medici Archives, and I found it in the Medici Archives two hours before the auction. American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) the self-taught master best known today for his scenes of nature and the sea got his start as one of the "special artists" of the Civil War. CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, no, no, no, no. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, certainly, don't destroy the art if you can avoid it. CLIFFORD SCHORER: No. A Massachussetts man filed suit against Sotheby's on Monday, saying he's the rightful owner. JUDITH RICHARDS: Okay. [00:35:58]. The central figure is Olive Blake. I was followed by a security guardthe wholejust followed around. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Sure. But I mean, as you became, CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, no, no. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I said, "No, that's good. I know you read books. Of course. No one, you knowother than school trips, people didn't really think of it as a great collection. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. So, I mean, I don't necessarily meet art connoisseurs. So I had readI forgot which painting it was; it was the [Bernardo] Strozzi. JUDITH RICHARDS: This is on your father's side? Do I say, you know, "Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, because I know how much this costs, where it came from, blah, blah, blah?" Every game was played. 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