Gan Zeev Women's Collection

The collection of Victor &Sally Ganz is one of the greatest cases of American private art collection in 20th century. The collection spanned from Picasso to American contemporary art, which occupied an important position in art history. Based on the background of American art market and the financial situation of the Ganz family, this article has presented three time phases of Ganz collection, introduced the collecting strategies and managing methods based on lots of data. In the background of art market, as a private collector, Ganz kept a very close relationship with art dealers, museums, artists, and other factors in American art market, and played an important role to the development of art and art market. The article will present a good case in private collection and provide a kind of collecting mode under a canonical art market which could be used for reference in China.In this article, some researching methods are used, including methods in study of art economics, statistics, sociology, art history, etc. Among the targets of this research are collection of Ganz family, the background of society and art market, collecting strategies and management. As a case study, the Ganz collection revealed a kind of methods in collecting modern and contemporary art collection, which is very useful and effective to other private collectors.