Robert Rifkind, philanthropist and 'game-changing' collector of German Expressionist works, has died.
Robert Gore Rifkind, prominent art collector and philanthropist, died Sunday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, his family said. He was 91.
“As a curator, that kind of easy access to a library and print collection — it was absolutely game changing,” Barron said. “It really helped to establish LACMA as a juggernaut in terms of dealing in the subject of German Expressionism, and it put L.A. on the map.”Rifkind was born and raised in a wealthy Beverly Hills family. Rifkind’s grandfather opened what was believed to be the first discount drugstore chain in L.A.
Rifkind married three times, first to Mollie Katz in the early ’50s, and then to Gogi Grant, a singer, in the late ’50s. Rifkind and Grant had one son, Joshua Beckett, now 54. Rifkind met Barron in 1976 at a LACMA dinner celebrating an exhibitionRifkind’s passion for German Expressionist art ignited in the early ’70s when he visited an exhibition at
Soon, Rifkind convinced Reed to close his shop and work for him full time, helping to build his nascent collection, Barron said. Rifkind had been collecting prints by early modern artists such as Matisse, Picasso and Chagall; the German Expressionists were less popular at the time in the mid-’70s — and more affordable — and the works spoke deeply to him.
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