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How to Sell the Art Your Parents Spent Their Lives Collecting
Sysco Corp. founder Herbert Irving and his wife, Florence, spent years building a collection of Asian art. Now their estate is selling it.
Source: Christie’s
Growing up in 1950s Long Island, Ron Irving wasn’t surrounded by wealth, or art, or high design. Still, as his father, Herbert, began to build the business that subsequently became Sysco Corp., art slowly began to make its way into the family’s life.
“They had limited means,” Irving says. “But even with those limited means they were eager to collect art. I have a vivid early memory of being bored to death being dragged to a sale in Westbury, Connecticut.”