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The article focuses on collection of art works can which can pay off and that purchasing as an investment vehicle carries risk and mentions that possession of artwork can become tough to sell when economy declines.

Several excerpts from a conversation with Gladstone Gallery owner Barbara Gladstone are presented.

The Tate in London has received a gift of nine artworks by major 20th-century British artists, including a David Hockney, a Lucian Freud and a Rachel Whiteread. The banker and philanthropist Ian Stoutzker and his wife, Mercedes, of Salzburg, Austria, who have been generous supporters of the arts in Britain, selected the artworks from their holdings because they fill gaps in the Tate's collection, the couple said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]