Rosette Delug

Rosette Delug

how I became an art collector

interview and portrait by ALEX ISRAEL

 

My entrance into the art world ten years ago was a fluke — or maybe it was more like a magical door opened for me. I was 50 years old and mourning the loss of my mother when I found out that my husband had a Parisian mistress and wanted a divorce. I went to New York to report the news of our separation to our middle child, who was then studying at Columbia, and it so happened that some friends of mine from LA were staying at my hotel. I ended up going to the Armory Show with them and bought several pieces of art I knew nothing about.

I came home, hung up the work, and suddenly the spaces in the house became mine — they no longer felt…