By Lily Elkwood
A saga, reminiscent of the popular HBO show Succession and Shakespeare’s King Lear, is the life and lawsuits of the famous collector Hubert Neumann. Neumann is the heir to a mail-order cosmetics fortune, but he is better known for his billion-dollar art collection assembled over the last 70 years. The collection contains works by some of the most prolific artists the world has ever known: Picasso, Basquiat, and Koons, to name a few.[1]
Neumann has spent his life surrounded by some of the most beautiful things in the world, but since 2018, he has been in a volatile family feud. There have been 19 lawsuits between the Neumann family since 2018.[2] This feud even resulted in Hubert spending the night in jail.[3] So, how did one of the most celebrated collectors in the world go from being named by the New York Times as the collector who breaks a thousand curators’ hearts to a father whose daughter broke his own?[4]
The Genesis: The Fight Over the Matriarch's Estate
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