How to Build a $60 Million Art Trove While Staying Within Your Means

The Heinz and Ruthe Eppler collection is coming to auction at Christie's

Composition I (1943) by Arshile Gorky could fetch an estimated $2 million to $3 million.

Source: Christie's

When Heinz and Ruthe Eppler began buying modern art in the late 1970s, the rookie collectors took the advice of a local museum curator: Buy the best works you can afford.

It turned out to be a good investment strategy.