The Mysterious Donor Who Fled Communism and Left Millions to the Art World
He did it all quietly. “Nothing about him said, ‘Look at me,’” said Candace Beinecke, president of Aso O. Tavitian’s foundation. “Very few people outside the art world knew about him,” confided Olivier Meslay, the director of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. When it was announced last month …