Is there one piece that got away, or that you still think about?
Rob: I know Eric is about to say elephant teapots.
Eric: Elephant teapots. Early in our collecting journey, Karen Flatow of Hesse Flatow and Crush Curatorial had a killer show called "surreality" with an incredible line-up of emerging artists. In that show, there was a wonderful diptych of sumptuously painted teapots shaped like elephants. We immediately fell in love and reached out to Karen. However, life happens, and, though we talked about buying them, we didn’t, and the two sweet little paintings got split up. They were painted by the amazing Dominique Fung and we still miss them. Lucky for us, we went on to collect two wonderful Dominique Fung paintings (and one sculpture!) that we live with and love every day, but we’re sad about the elephants.