A Personal Perspective: How I emotionally detached from my art collection.
We had no intention of moving. But with no warning, we got an email from our landlord saying that he was moving back into his house and we had to vacate.. There is a terrible shortage of rental properties in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where we live. We began looking for a new abode and it was quite distressing. Prices have gone up two or threefold. They are often in remote locations, and we have an urban walking lifestyle. Many are run-down, or more akin to student housing.
One day I woke up with a start and decided I had to sell the whole art collection because there was no room to hang it and no surfaces to display it. I grieved from the loss, but once the decision was made, I didn’t go back.I knew I didn’t want a lot of people traipsing through our house while we were in the middle of downsizing. We let a few people we know come, they told dealers, and suddenly dealers were buying a lot of it. One museum took a large collection of ours.
I had an idea: What if it all belonged to people we didn’t know? My husband added to that: it belonged to people we didn’t know and they are deceased. It opened the floodgates of possibility. We detached emotionally, and were able to let most of it go.
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