‘The Accidental Collector’: Herbert Lust Dead at 99

Herbert Lust, a major collector of modern and contemporary art who befriended Alberto Giacometti, Robert Indiana, and other artists, died on May 12 at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, the New York Times reports. He was 99.Lust often described his life in the art world as something of an “accident.” On multiple occasions, he recounted how in 1949, while on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, he ended up at a luncheon sitting next to Giacometti. Int