Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of the woman of Arles ...

A long-time Pacific Palisades resident, whose escape from the Palisades Fire on a bicycle with two paintings in his hands ... and an aficionado of maritime art. And this was a piece that he ...