'Art of the Steal' Director Talks Barnes Foundation
March, 18, 2010 5:18 pm | Comments On #Barnes Collection, Barnes Foundation, documentary, Don Argott, movie, The Art of the StealI must admit, I knew nothing about the Barnes Foundation before I made the documentary "The Art of the Steal." It’s a private art gallery and school that houses one of the most breathtaking and important Post-Impressionist and early modern art collections in the world.
As I was soon to find out, it was much more than that.
The collection’s unrivaled holdings are staggering in quantity: 181 paintings by Renoir, 69 by Cézanne, 59 by Matisse and 46 by Picasso, including many 
masterpieces.
Dr. Albert Barnes was a self-made man with a well-trained eye who assembled the art in the early 1920s.
He snubbed the provincial elites in his hometown of Philadelphia by housing his collection in the Philadelphia...
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Don Argott is a cinematographer, producer and director. His latest film, "The Art of the Steal," chronicles the long struggle for control over the multibillion-dollar Barnes collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern art. A former DP and camera operator for Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and TLC/Discovery, Argott started 9.14 Pictures with producer Sheena M. Joyce. The company’s first two feature-length documentaries, "Rock School" and "Two Days in April," are available on DVD.
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