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work is estimated around $2,000, I am personally approaching each possible interested party and sending out numerous emails to let them know that an artwork by this artist will come up. For our clients, I want to achieve the best possible result and to find a great home for the artworks. I am so happy if I see that a great work finds a great new home, preferably in a museum or an important collection. Was it your most successful single modern and contemporary auction ever? Yes. It almost achieved $7 million Favorite museum in the world. Frankly, there's really not one, because each museum has great works which I love, but personally I like more the intimate museums like the Nasher and the Kimbell (and also because of their architecture). Top work of art and why. The artworks I am most attracted to are from Dadaism, conceptual art and minimalism, and I love works which are somehow connected to Gesamtkunstwerk; works which have words in them and are socially and politically engaged. Many of your offerings are works on paper. Any advice as to framing, hanging, storing, collection management? If you have a work on paper for 30 years and haven't reframed it, please do so, because then there was no UV-protected glass, and it usually wasn't framed with acid- free paper. Try to avoid hanging it in direct sunlight and not next to the shower. On the art of food. Rumor has it that your dinner parties are legendary. Yes, I like to cook — even if I am not a special cook. I like to invite people of different backgrounds and interests to keep it interesting. On the menu. Mostly Italian — or my inter- pretation of it. I don't cook with a cookbook next to me but have my own interpretation based on my mood — which sometimes doesn't work at all. But pasta with self-made pesto, stuffed champignons, lemon chicken. Ideal type of entertaining. Dinner. For sure, eight. Advice on developing an eye. Go to art fairs and visit as many galleries as possible. Tips for buying at auction that only the experts know. Buy what you like. I don't believe in art as a solemn investment. On the Heritage niche, and where your department fits in the international art world eco system. First, we care for each work and do our best for each client. Other auction houses are only focused on the billionaires and oligarchs and only care about the works of $10 million and above. Because of our broad audience and outreach, even in the mid-level we are getting world records. I am also showing highlights in our New York office and Beverly Hills office. If budget were no concern, what artist/art work would you acquire. That's a tough one: Duchamp, Man Ray, Schwitters, Bruce Nauman. There are so many. I don't have a one and only favorite artist, because each artist also had a good and a bad day, so it really depends on the individual artwork. How and when you and Ed Beardsley met. Ed and I are now together for 14 years. Maybe you should ask him how we met ... The challenges to having a partner in the same field. Strangely enough, we never talk about art or the company at home. 1. This miniature bookshelf installation features an ink on paper by New York artist Eric Wolf, in company with a petite ceramic/keepsake from Houston artist Amy Blakemore (best known as a photographer, procured from Inman Gallery) and a sentimental Volkswagen model. 2. Hettig and Beardsley's long, long, thin table is the perfect foil for intimate dinner parties. The rustic sculptural find also serves as a weekend desk for Hettig. 3. This still-life vignette is comprised of a canvas by San Francisco-based Kent Alexander alongside a wood brick picked up on a Malibu beach and a droll silver pig candlesnuffer. 4. Chung-Tang Ho's Push and Store Cabinet for Droog, 2006, evidences the Heritage gents' eye for avant-garde design. 5. Katy Grannan's life-size chromogenic print Maxim, 2001, welcomes visitors to Hettig and Beardsley's lofty, modernist townhouse. To the right, Grayson Cox's multilayered photo-based sculpture Cruise, 2011, comprised of canvas couch cushions, acquired from Gasser Grunert Gallery, NYC. 6. Bookshelves brim with art volumes and exhibition catalogs mostly used when Hettig wrote for illustrious art journals like Artforum and Kunstforum in the 1990s. 7. Centuries collide as Karl Haendel's graphite on paper, acquired from Anna Helwig Gallery, Los Angeles, hangs above a mid-18th-century Irish bachelor chest from Beardsley's family. On top the handsome antique rests a ceramic by Brooks Oliver, a former Dallas artist now on a residency in Montana. 8. From left, contemporary photos by Luo Yang and Cindy James. The latter, which shows Van Gogh's bedroom, was snapped up at a Water Thirst charity auction hosted by The Goss-Michael Foundation. 9. Looks like hell (condition issues), but it's Heil on a paper plate by German artist Bernhard Johannes Blume. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 2. 10. Chung-Tang Ho's Push and Store Cabinet for Droog shares space with works by Marcel Dzama, Grayson Cox and Rosha Yaghmal (from Thomas Solomon Gallery, L.A., acquired at the Dallas Art Fair) and a vase by Brooks Oliver. 11. In the living room, a photo by Dallas-based Sibylle Bauer, from Ro2 Art, testifies to the couple's interest in Texas artists. 11.