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Collector chases painting around the world after seeing just its photo

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York will stage Corse's first solo museum survey in June

Thomas Yamamoto
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Thomas Yamamoto

Katya Kazakina | Bloomberg
Thomas Yamamoto had only seen it in a photograph, but the retired corporate finance executive was so enthralled by Mary Corse’s monochrome white canvas that he bought it first and then hopped on a plane to New York from Shanghai to inspect his newest treasure.
 
He glimpsed the $350,000 work up close for the first time Wednesday in the booth of Kayne Griffin Corcoran gallery at the Armory Show, the largest modern and contemporary art fair in New York.
 
“Normally, we’d put it on reserve, come here, see it and then buy it,” said Yamamoto, 69, who began