Pictures, Passions and Eye

Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passion aroused by these artists never left him. This passion, this ''eye'' as he calls it led to his becoming Head of the Impressionist Department at Sotheby''s where he remained for forty years. He describes the personalities he met along the way: the colle...