An insider’s guide to collecting

Eli and Edythe Broad
Why we started collecting
The American billionaire entrepreneur Eli Broad, who once remarked that collecting becomes a compulsion and an addiction, is someone who came to contemporary art after buying older workalthough he did so late in life and was inspired to begin by his wife Edythe.As he puts it: Edye collected before I started. She was buying prints and drawings. She bought a Braque print and then a Lautrec poster. I wanted to buy the Andy Warhol soup can and hang it i