The New York-based collector Larry Warsh analyses the behaviour of buyers in a new book, The Compulsion of Collecting: Why People Buy and What Drives Them. Warsh—who collects a few artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ai Weiwei, in depth—previously published Weiwei-isms (Princeton University Press, 2012). In his new book, he says: “I’m trying to get an understanding of what has been driving me for the past 20 years because I’m almost tormented, baited every day, to buy more art.”
Originally appeared in The Art Newspaper as 'Collector explores buyers’ behaviour in new book'