Agnès b’s Art Collection

In the 80s, Agnès b met Jean-Michel Basquiat over a pizza in the café across from her shop in Paris and one of his activist artworks became the first piece in her now expansive art collection. Two decades later, she was introduced to Ryan McGinley over a bottle of vodka at a party in downtown New York, and became the first person to bring the then unknown photographer’s work to France. Stories like these flow effortlessly and unselfconsciously from the animated 73-year-old…