The "Faces of the Great" series is a complex and fascinating biographies of major artists - immigrants and immigrants from immigrant families. This is a story about people who, despite the difficulties of emigre life, reached the heights in their creative activity and inscribed their names in the history of world art. American physician Albert Barnes (1872-1951) inventor and collector. He has the honor of discovering new names in art. He was the first to acquire the works of Amedeo Modigliani and Chaim Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Matisse, thereby laying the foundation for their worldwide fame. Dr. Albert Barnes is an eccentric experimenter, a rebel, a true knight of Art, who has created the richest private collection of paintings in the world - the Barnes Foundation. Illustrations by Alexander Steinberg.