From Cairo to the oil fields of Kurdistan, the life of Swiss billionaire Jean-Claude Gandur has always been turbulent. This oil trader is about to designate the place that will house the other work of his life. Composed of 3,700 pieces, its collection includes Roman, Greek, Egyptian antiquities..., artifacts from the Americas, Asia and Oceania, European furniture and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, a set of paintings focused on the post-war period and contemporary artists, from Hans Hartung to Chéri Cherin, via Pierre Soulages. It is the collection of an enthusiast who embraces some great parts of art with greed.
"My first goal was to have beautiful things in my home," he says in his Paris office, decorated with pre-Columbian statuettes and a painting by Henri Michaux. For his museum, he could have turned to any country; he finally chose France, where he likes to rest in Normandy and Megève. "It's...
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