Moody and Modern

He was the first person to study and collect Cubist works with the reverence and scholarship hitherto reserved for the old masters.

- BY HUGH EAΚΙΝ

GLEAMING THE CUBE Douglas Cooper in 1954 in Argoulliers, France.

IN 1983, the cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder had his first encounter with the art collection of the art critic and historian Douglas Cooper.