FEATURES ARCHIVE

First Stanley Cohen fell in love with a girl from Argentina. Shortly thereafter, the New York native came to love the art from his wife Regina’s homeland. Stanley and Regina Cohen filled their world with art, attending auctions, visiting galleries and frequenting museums from New York to Paris to every country they explored in their many travels. But they had a particular affinity for the art of Argentina, traveling there throughout the 1960s and ’70s, going to shows and acquiring works from artists such as Jorge de la Vega, Ernesto Deira, Victor Chab, Rómulo Macció, Luis Felipe Noé and more.

Stanley even earned his living from Argentine art, working as an agent for comic illustrators, many of them Argentinian, and also working as a framer in a shop he co-owned. Regina had a successful psychiatry practice and the couple resided in Great Neck, N.Y., where they filled every room with paintings, prints and sculpture, along with the sounds of the classical music they both loved. When Regina passed away tragically in 1985, Stanley returned to his native Queens, N.Y, to a modest apartment. But he held on to the art that reminded him of his late wife. The 11 works in this auction, including two remarkable pieces by Jorge de la Vega, represent a life of love for art and for each other.