Vast Sonoma Private Collection Filled with Large-Scale Commissions Becomes Major Attraction

Set in the grassy fields of California’s Sonoma Valley are a group of 25 figures who appear to be hysterically laughing, their hands clutching their ears. From a distance, they look like a group of men. Up close, however, one realizes it’s an artwork—and just one of many in the surrounding area.
That work is Yue Minjun’s Contemporary Terracotta Warriors (2005), and it is one of many owned by Hong Kong–based collectors Allan and Mei Warburg, who have amassed a signif