Halsey Minor's Art Addiction Helped Drive Him To Bankruptcy

"For Halsey Minor, collecting contemporary art and design is a hunger that cannot be satisfied, a thirst that cannot be quenched," said the notes inside the Phillips catalog of the single-owner sale of Minor's art works in 201o. "It is this addiction to the nectar, to put together one of the most formidable collections of Marc Newson and Ed Ruscha, for instance, that drives him."