JUDITH RICHARDS: Do you speak to art historians who have. JUDITH RICHARDS: So you're notit sounds like you're not sure you will go back to collecting for yourself. CLIFFORD SCHORER: commentarywe had a Reynolds and a Kehinde Wiley together, and we showed that, you know, basically, this portraitureyou know, the portraiture is not only of its time, but it also can be timeless. So, you know, I did that kind of loop aesthetically, where I went from the filigree to the shadow. [00:38:00]. Had you started going to museums there? You know, everything. I mean, I would certainly still be able to collect, and probably more successfully, because I would be focused like a laser beam on sort of one thing, you know, one idea. There's an understanding of what they need; there's an understanding of what they want. I mean, I would certainly say that having a gallery creates an inherent conflict of interest that I have to think carefully about. [00:10:00]. So that doesn't happen. They take advice, and they build wonderful collections, and they're wonderful people, but you talk to them about things other than paintings. I mean, my favorite type of symposia end with, you know, almost fisticuffs between scholars about attribution. I would have left that to, you know, others in the art market to decide whether they would do it. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And I neededI needed to. But anyway, no, I mean, you know, it was the good old days. You mentioned that. And, you know, that's a fun game, and it yields some fruit, it really does. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah, yeah. Now, that's where the museum world and my personal life intersected, because of the Worcester Art Museum. It was a long process of, you know, installing and reinstalling, and eventually it became a show house of 120 Old Master paintings, and you know, all theit's sort of the progression of my collecting from beginning to end. JUDITH RICHARDS: You mean you went down at 15? He was a dealer and, you know, and an ennobled Italian, and it was in his collection. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I think so. I wrote in English and I got a response in English, so. Yeah, I haven't doneI didn'tI hadn't done that at that point. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And they decided to move to, you know, some pastoral landscape down south, not knowing at all what that meant. JUDITH RICHARDS: So how long did you work there as a programmer? CLIFFORD SCHORER: That's all over the place. So back then, you know, I did a lot of assembly code, and COBOL, and MDBS. And I said, "Well, I assume you do if you just bid me up to $47,000." CLIFFORD SCHORER: It was a good, you know, three or four years of financing deals that, you know, I found particularly exciting and interesting, and the paintings that we were ablethat I was able to sort of touch in an abstract way were paintings I could never otherwise touch. JUDITH RICHARDS: The competitors are in equal situations? There were things that were not really museum pieces, but they were very valuable things. How did that acquisition come about? You know, but in general, I mean, it's usuallyshe has a pretty good eye and I respect her. You know, it clouds my view of the artwork. CLIFFORD SCHORER: It's a big change, yes. And I think it's working in a sense that people think of us a little bit differently than they did Agnew's under the old ownership, and I think we've come full circle; I think the five years that we've been operating in business, Anthony has done a wonderful job, you know. I enjoyed Richmond. I had developed my eye to the extent that I also realized that all the export wares were crude Kraak wares that they were just, you know, flipping onto the boats to get rid of it. Well, we still have some aspects of those things, but certainly not at the scale. CLIFFORD SCHORER: no, no, I agree. 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. In her later years, Olive was described by one of her . JUDITH RICHARDS: So you weren't in Virginia very long? List of all 147 artworks by Winslow Homer. [00:46:01]. JUDITH RICHARDS: and at the Worcester Art Museum. So the short answer is that they may like to have it. I think we're right-sized for the moment for the market. It was called the Professors ProgramUniversity Professors Program. JUDITH RICHARDS: Mm-hmm. But, yes, I mean, I think having a high-end warehouse where, you knowI would like to be the service provider in that equation and not the gallerist, because, to me, it'sno matter what you do, it's a clinical experience. [Laughs.] So we're changingone by one, we're changing the buildings. JUDITH RICHARDS: Where does that take place? Her book was from '88 or something, or '90. So, I lost it. Do you have aso your approach to lending is to try to be as positive as you can. And I said, "Well, whatever your normal process is, just do your normal process. [Affirmative.] And she's, you know, "Chiuso, chiuso." We love her. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I have a brother, a younger brother. Rita Albertson at the Worcester Art Museum did a phenomenal restoration. It's a very complicated taxation and business question, but basically, there was almost as much incentive for them to liquidate the company as there was to sell it. In their day, they weren't particularly valuable, which is why they're strewn all over Boston. 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? JUDITH RICHARDS: Did you acquire any friends? CLIFFORD SCHORER: In the Boston area. You know, I'd just come over and ask them questions about art, and I'm learning more from them than they could ever learn from me, CLIFFORD SCHORER: because they're there telling me about something that they have, you know. CLIFFORD SCHORER: it's ano, it's a part gift, part sale, and in the end, it hadthe strings that I had, they met them all, which were that they're going to do a focal exhibition on paleontology in thebecause they're doing a re-jigger of many of their exhibitions. JUDITH RICHARDS: Having that expand? Other people who you could talk to about becomingabout this passion? And you wouldn't have enduring liabilities for all the things that you've sold in the past because the company would cease to exist. This growing passion? JUDITH RICHARDS: Do they focusexcuse my ignorance. You had to go to the big card catalogues and pick out something. Yes, in my subjective opinion, I'm doing those things. CLIFFORD SCHORER: managing their affairs. You know, you're always in conflict. So we drove down there and, JUDITH RICHARDS: That was your first car? So I bought the picture, took it to the Worcester Art Museum. You know, sure, I mean, I could go down a list of 200 people that I've wandered in on and started spouting nonsense, and they tolerate my nonsense, and then they actually engage in a conversation with me. So, you knowand I'm making that upbut, yeah, I mean, there were pictures probably ranging fromI remember Constables for 14,000, which would have been a tremendous amount of money in 1900, down to literally three pounds or 28 shillings [laughs], you know. And he moonlighted teaching financial management at Boston University Metropolitan College, which was their evening school. When Harper's sent him to Virginia to cover the Civil War, he found his forte in closely observing camp life, attending to "the ordinary foot soldier," Cross notes, "not the general . [Affirmative.] [00:52:00]. They just have both retired from us. So he says, "You'll be a Corporator." And thatyou know, in those cases, I think only if it rises to the level of a conflict of interest that violates the oath. No, I neverI mean, I alwaysI mean, the problem is I'm a jack-of-all-trades and a master of absolutely nothing. I wasn'tI didn't have anything approximating a cultural youth. JUDITH RICHARDS: So you start to spend more time in New York, or that's auction? I think not. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yes. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more, designed and sold by independent artists around the world. Without synthetic fertilizers, it's impossible to feed the human race. CLIFFORD SCHORER: It's a loan, yeah, yeah. JUDITH RICHARDS: Now, I have some questions that sort of look to the future. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Give up all my business interests and retire to sort of a conversational job where I sat in a shop, and I played shopkeeper, and people came in and looked at my furniture and told me how overpriced it was. But, yeah, I mean. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yes. This is the flotsam and jetsam of my other businesses. I mean, he and I did engineering projects from the age ofage 11, he would give me. JUDITH RICHARDS: And when did youbut you didn't really start buying, CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, I didn't start doing that until I was inuntil I wasI had. JUDITH RICHARDS: your fellow collectors? But, yeah, I had a programming job there. So do you have a plan that will stipulate, CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah, I recently did an estate. So we both get on planes, and he goes and finds pictures in Berlin, here, there, and everywhere, and we pull together. I mean, weyou know, since I've had Agnew's, I discovered one van Dyck sketchdiscovered, like from nowhereso, discovered one. Well, I didn't have that crutch of dealing, so I had to earn money to collect. I mean, if someone told me, every year, I'm going to buy one great Dutch picture, I'd say, Well, that's a fool's philosophy in terms of collecting. [Affirmative.] Their father was in the artwas sort of a discoverer. JUDITH RICHARDS: more or less, the interest in earlier painting has declined somewhat, but perhaps not in specifically where you're looking. They're, JUDITH RICHARDS: So at some point, you've expanded your knowledge to include the succeeding decades, CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. So often, you know, I was the sort of, "What's the number, and when can you pay me?" And unfortunately, I mean. Now that decorators are not putting bad Old Masters in the living rooms of every nouveau riche house, that's not floating anymore. [Laughs.] You know, you can only do so much of it; otherwise, you have a saccharine high. And it was obsessive. He said, "Well, we'll make you a Corporator." You know, by the time you're done with all of those things, youyou know, your five percent or seven-and-a-half percent commission is completely consumed, and then some. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Total coincidence. So I was going to the library at Harvard and at other places and reading the catalogues for all the Drouot sales and, you know. You have to think about tastes and the moment of your taste and whether the market is esteeming that taste at a given moment. Cliff holds board advisory positions with Epibone, a company Clifford J. Schorer Director, Entrepreneur in Residence Program, Columbia Business School and Co-Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship @ Columbia University cjs24@columbia.edu I tried to hire someone who came in, and we had some battle royales over everything. And my grandfather, similarly, was not particularly book-learned but was an incredible engineer. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So they have nowthey have now one of the four most-complete ofin the world, and they have the biggest, I believe. It's what leads to bankruptcies in galleries, is buying too much stock and not selling it fast enough. So I didn't go back. I have a very common eye, meaning that, you know, obviously, I can go through his catalogues, and I call him up about four lots, and he says, "Yes, you and every other dealer," meaning that, you know, of course, those are the four lots that, you know, that the 12 people that he knows are going to call him about. You know, I love that. You know, the really great, truly amazing things that anybody would want in their collection have decoupled from the rest of the market, the rest of the market which was the kind ofall the way from, and I say this disparagingly, decorative works up to sort of upper-middle market works. JUDITH RICHARDS: You said it's atthey're both at the Worcester? So I know, for example, in Sofia that they have wonderful, you know, Mithraic panels from tombs and things, you know, from altars, because Mithraism was very big during the Roman Empire. So, you know, the oldest stuff there is all these dioramas and things, and I know that they're thinking about the future. Menu. JUDITH RICHARDS: Are you involved in creating those settings in the booths, as you described? You know, bags full of them. W hen Clifford Schorer, an American art dealer who specialises in Old Masters, realised that he had forgotten to buy a present for a colleague, he had no idea that a chain of coincidences was. Were there collectors you were reading about or you met? CLIFFORD SCHORER: Sure. Noortman was the gallery that was, you know, a very successful Dutch dealer, Robert Noortman. [Affirmative.] And there was one large mud sculpture of a horse on the floor in the lobby at Best Products. You know, from the slaves of West Africa, to the sugar, to the rum, to the plates, to the spices. Periodically, they'll have them here in New York when theythey'll have a dinner with the Belgian ambassador, and they do this sort of thing. Anyway, so I asked about the price of that, and I think it was 765,000, which was actually attainable for me. Then eventually, a drawing surfaced. CLIFFORD SCHORER: They werethey had the English family connections to allow them to continue to trade when others were forced to do business with people that were, shall we say, less than scrupulous, and so that was a lucky break in a sense. JUDITH RICHARDS: You mentioned paleontology. So all of that was interesting, and there was no need there to say, Okay, you know, from the Nanking Cargo-type of plate, there are 15 different floral varieties. JUDITH RICHARDS: for profit. And Iyou know, I doff my cap to them. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah, they do publish, especially catalogues for exhibition and shows and things like that, yeah. So, it's the, CLIFFORD SCHORER: it's the hunt, the pursuit, the discovery, the investigation, the scholarship, the writing. And just, you know, wander around and pull books. It doesn't have to be, you know, Grandma's attic. JUDITH RICHARDS: So coming back to your, CLIFFORD SCHORER: family. Contact Reference Services for more information. The discovery hinges on the unlikely meeting of two men: Clifford Schorer, an entrepreneur and art dealer who specializes in recovering the lost works of Old Masters, and Brainerd Phillipson, a. So, I think18, 19, 20, in that area, I spent 26 weeks a year outside the United States. And I had learned four or five other programming languages and shown proficiency in them, just because I knew that they'd be useful. And the focus was much more British 20th century. I'm trying to think what other fairs we've done. So, yes, something like that that comesan opportunity like that would derail any project for a period, but then we'd come back to our projects, you know. You know, I never thought of it as a practical way to improve the quality of the collection until recently, like until the last 10 years. So. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yes, I mean, it helped to give the Worcester Art Museum the breathing space to get their spendI think this year their spend is down to 5.8 percent of endowment, which is the lowest I've ever seen, by an enormous amount. I was definitely some. JUDITH RICHARDS: Mm-hmm. JUDITH RICHARDS: Mm-hmm. I have the Coronation Halberd of the Archduke Albrecht, and it's in the museum at Worcester [laughs], and, no. He focuses on businesses with unique ideas or technologies that are in need of guidance during their initial growth phases. I'll go back to college, if they want me. He lived until I was 13 years old. And I have it at home to remind myself of what an absolutely abysmal painter I am and to really, you know, bring homeyou know, I always think I can put myI can do anything I put my head to. So I went through the whole museum. I probably should, but, you know. CLIFFORD SCHORER: You know, I mean, I love lending things, and I have a lot of things on loan, and I would like to do more of that. Now, the difference is that in, you knowobviously, in relative dollars, in 1900 you may have sold 1,001 paintings, but, you know, at an average price of 28 guineas. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So this was an incredible object. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Which was great. Now you've got that top strata, which will always be high and going higher. JUDITH RICHARDS: When you had this 300-and-some-piece collection, were you displaying it in your apartment? CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. But they wouldn't print that because I wouldn't put my name on it. JUDITH RICHARDS: Was that because you didn't know that they would be able to teach you something? JUDITH RICHARDS: Was that coincidence that you ran into them? And that risk is that that day, that buyer is not in the room. I mean, you know, literally, and these are Constable, Claude Lorrain, you know, Millais, you know. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I got the feeling that that's where they had settled, was, you know, doing British 20th-century exhibitions, which was timing the market pretty well, but the costs and the sales prices of the actual paintings and objects were too low to sustain the model. But I mean, as you became, CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, no, no. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Hugh Brigstocke. But it hammered down; I lost it, you know, and thought no more of it. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And then there's the collection that I was able to acquire that stimulated some of the same nerve cells, but possibly the L-DOPA levels were a little lower. They started chatting about art, and then Mr. Phillipson mentioned. All of that is gone. ], JUDITH RICHARDS: When you first started, and you're imagining the possibilities of your collecting, did you envision arriving at that level of expertise, where that could be a pursuit, an achievable goal, to discover, CLIFFORD SCHORER: I'm leery of the word "expertise," just as I'm leery of the word "artist." It was extraordinary. I had to advocate and argue for it, and that did sort of achieve the goal I had set for it, which is a relatively universal acceptance. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So thereyou know, whatthe sort of happy circumstance that might fit into what you're asking is if Iand I can think of one, actually. CLIFFORD SCHORER: the flotsam and jetsam. Do we think this is this?" ], JUDITH RICHARDS: The panel at the Frick, was that yourthat was in 2013it was called Going for Baroque: Americans Collect Italian Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries, and you served on the panel as the only private collector, or. How can they possibly have a Piero di Cosimo in Worcester? JUDITH RICHARDS: And he drove a Model T? And I'm thinking, Who are these people? CLIFFORD SCHORER: So, I have had some issues because, obviously, living in Boston, New England, you have the humidity problems, and I had a lot of paintings on panel. So those are the reason that I try to stay involved with things like the Corpus Rubenianum, which is the Rubens study group that is publishingit runs the Burchard foundation that publishes the books, the Corpus Rubenianum. Okay? ], JUDITH RICHARDS: You don't recall anyone educating you about how to look? I mean, I'm doing the floors in my new buildings. So those. JUDITH RICHARDS: And did thosewere those thingsdid you consider acquiring those things as well to accompany the painting? But there were rare books in there, but it wasn't a focal collection. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Oh, all the time, yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Renovations; purchasing a company; selling a fiber optic switchyou know, whatever it isyou know, building a shelteryou know, we do all sorts of different sort of project-based companies, and nothing has cash flow, meaning I don't sell widgets and collect the 39-cent margin on a widget, and I don't sell X number widgets a year. [00:08:00]. And then we put that with a 1930s painting by [Tulio] Crali, you know, this sort of aeropittura of Modernism. Leon Neal / Getty Images . So you've got another decoupling. Being self taught, he practised with water colours and started his career as a commercial illustrator. So, to me, that was, you knowthat was my day at that curator table, where I was silent the whole time, and at the end, I just sort of put the trump card down. And I got to the point whereand again, I'll beI'll stand corrected on this, because I know a collector in Boston who has a very strong opinion on what I'm about to saybut I ended my venture in Chinese export porcelain to my satisfaction, meaning that I couldn't go any further in that particular collecting area, other than to buy more expensive, singular examples of the same thing. It's a photo of her, and unfortunately, there's a lot of blue hair; there's no kids. But, and I went right toI went right to the paintings. You know, fake labels from Mathias Komor. And Iand Iyou know, obviously, there's a lot more material. So I had readI forgot which painting it was; it was the [Bernardo] Strozzi. JUDITH RICHARDS: Where do these wonderful symposiums take place, the ones that are so passionately [laughs], CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, those areyou know, I'm thinking of very specific ones. And I don't have that desire to have that at home, so, you know, I've been able to sort of, I guess, suppress my immune system enough that the lymphocytes are not attacking every object so I take them home [laughs], if you know what I mean. I mean, not because it wasit was cheap. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Only well after that. I think I was 20 or 21. So I asked my partnerI said, "Call over the person here. And, you know, you can do that, and if it's done aesthetically well, you can show somebody that, you know, you can still have the quality and think about what a bargain it is. [Affirmative.] So a couple months go by, and I get this photo, and I open it up, and it's really wonderful. 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. I mean, as a matter of fact, CLIFFORD SCHORER: There was a day when I all of sudden said, you know, I can collect paintings. I lived in Massapequa, Long Island, for probably an extended period; I would say from about age seven until aboutactually, from about age eight until about 13. That's your real risk. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I soldI sold maybe 16 pieces at auction. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yes, I mean, did I read articles? The Daniele Crespi, which was a very early Daniele Crespi that Otto Naumann, the dealer in New York, had purchased in 1994 as Lombard School. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And when they came into the market and destroyed the marketa reason that I left the market for good in about 20072006, 2007when they started to sort of manipulate, you know, the auction market, I stopped buying, but I had accumulated quite a nice collection of Imperial things. I loved the flea markets in Paris in those days. What kind of high school experience did you have? And when Freeport got a little too rough for them, because they were living in a part of town that had gone down quite a bit since they bought in the 1940s. JUDITH RICHARDS: yourself a kind of an allowance of paintings? So my father was encouraged by that, and sort of dragged me on a little field trip to Boston and took me around to the colleges. So for them to have, you know, something that is at that levelI mean, compared to broken pieces of pots, which is what the rest of the museum was, you know, broken fragments of pots and maybe some rings. Located in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture (8th and F Streets NW), Size: 5 sound files (3 hr., 57 min.) And so theyI put it on a seven-year loan there, and then at the end of seven years, there were a number of stipulations. JUDITH RICHARDS: Did your other business interests then also take a step back? JUDITH RICHARDS: Is this inbased in Londonbased in Boston? And again, I mean, I don'tbecause it's not a family legacy business for me; I'm not planning on handing this off to a son, so I have to think very carefully about what the next generation of the Agnew's company will be. [1] So because I happened to be going to all of these events, I would see the object. And I think that was to my detriment, because certainly their wisdom could've saved me a lot of time. New York? JUDITH RICHARDS: What was the interest in traveling through those countries? No, no, theyI mean, but they did have goodthey had the head of Unum Provident Insurance. I mean, obviously, the team is small, so we have to pick our battles carefully. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And you know, other things happened too. I'm in Southborough, Massachusetts. JUDITH RICHARDS: So I'm thinking of 20th century. Would I go to the library and spend time studying Chinese export porcelain? JUDITH RICHARDS: So was your contribution focused on that installation and maintaining that object and any other objects you might, CLIFFORD SCHORER: It's very complicated, but basically, JUDITH RICHARDS: Well, you don't need to. JUDITH RICHARDS: Yeah. Select this result to view Clifford J Schorer's phone number, address . JUDITH RICHARDS: Did youwere you maintaining a kind of a wish list, so when you came into thiswhen you had the money, you knew you had your goals? JUDITH RICHARDS: And yet it may be private voices, and there's that conflict, potential conflict of interest, where you're lending something or donating something. "The auction is coming up." I think that's fantastic. I'm also doing other things. Does it happen that a painting and a drawing will happen to hit the market at the same time? 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? 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