The Man Who Bought The Scream: Collector Leon Black’s Reckoning Is Far from Over

Leon Black’s main passion is art, a love that can easily be traced back to his mother, the artist, and to his aunt, the art dealer, and to her husband, his uncle, who was also an artist. His collection, housed in both his Park Avenue town house and his weekend home in Bedford, New York, is considered by many to be one of the world’s finest in private hands. It’s easily worth more than $1 billion, and perhaps several multiples of that number. On the extensive grounds at his Bedf