Emily and Jerry Spiegel

Jerome E. "Jerry" Spiegel was born in Brooklyn, New York City on July 4, 1925.

His father died when he was three years old.{{cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Shawn |title=DEVELOPMENT OF A BUILDER: POTATO FIELDS TO MAIN STREET developments along Route 107 in Hicksville, L.I. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/14/realestate/development-builder-potato-fields-main-street-developments-along-route-107.html |access-date=July 1, 2023 |work=New York Times |date=June 14, 1981}} Much of his childhood was spent on his uncle's 115-acre potato farm in Smithtown, Long Island, New York.{{cite news |title=Christie's to offer Visionaries: Works from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection |url=https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details/?pressreleaseid=8659 |access-date=June 30, 2023 |work=Christie's |date=April 3, 2017}}

Emily Joy Rosenblatt was born on December 21, 1928, and died on February 16, 2009.{{cite web |title=United States Social Security Death Index |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBXR-5X3 |website=familysearch.org |access-date=July 1, 2023}} She was the daughter of Jacob H. Rosenblatt and Carrie Skloot Rosenblatt, who was an interior designer, and died on November 22, 2000, aged 94.{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths ROSENBLATT, CARRIE SKLOOT |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/23/classified/paid-notice-deaths-rosenblatt-carrie-skloot.html |access-date=July 1, 2023 |work=New York Times |date=November 23, 2000}}

In 1945, Jerome started his first company in Hicksville, building suburban housing for soldiers coming home from the Second World War, and by 1950 was building one home per day.{{cite web |title=History |url=https://spiegelrealty.com/about/#history |website=spiegelrealty.com |access-date=June 30, 2023}} In 1952, he built the Nassau Farmers Market, Long Island's first indoor shopping center, and by 1971 was the largest individual owner of commercial and industrial real estate on Long Island. He died on November 3, 2009.{{cite web |title=United States Social Security Death Index |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VSW3-322 |website=familysearch.org |access-date=July 1, 2023}}

They collected post-war American and German painting and sculpture, and photography.

They were "early champions " of artists including Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Christopher Wool and Anselm Kiefer.{{cite web |title=The Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection |url=https://www.christies.com/features/The-Emily-and-Jerry-Spiegel-Collection-8200-3.aspx |website=Christie's |access-date=July 1, 2023}} They also collected works by photographers including Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Paul Outerbridge, Paul Strand and Diane Arbus.

Each daughter received roughly half (by value) of their parents' collection and in May 2017 held rival sales, Pamela with Christie's, Lise with Sotheby's. Lise only auctioned one work, Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 Untitled, which her parents had bought for $19,000 in 1984; it sold for $110.5 million to Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector Yusaku Maezawa.

In 1954, Emily Rosenblatt married Jerome Spiegel in Queens, New York City.{{cite web |title=New York City Marriage Licenses Index, 1950-1995 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLS1-WGML |website=familysearch.org |access-date=July 1, 2023}}

They had two daughters, Pamela Sanders and Lise Spiegel Wilks, who have "a long-standing feud of unknown origin", and do not speak to each other.{{cite news |last1=Kazakina |first1=Katya |title=Sibling Rivalry Erupts Into $160 Million Art Auction Showdown |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-10/sibling-rivalry-erupts-into-160-million-art-auction-showdown |access-date=June 30, 2023 |work=Bloomberg LP |date=May 10, 2017}} Both sisters graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and are both married to men who are in real estate.

Emily and Jerry Spiegel lived at 10 Broadlawn Avenue in Kings Point, Long Island, New York.{{cite web |title=Emily and Jerry Spiegel |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-collectors/top-200-profiles/emily-and-jerry-spiegel/ |website=ArtNews |date=June 8, 2015 |access-date=June 30, 2023}}{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths SPIEGEL, JERRY |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9D05E6D9163AF935A35752C1A96F9C8B63.html |access-date=June 30, 2023 |work=New York Times |date=November 6, 2009}} They both died in 2009.{{cite web | url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/jerry-spiegel-obituary?pid=135502735 | title=JERRY SPIEGEL Obituary (2009) - New York, NY - New York Times | website=Legacy.com }}{{cite web | url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/emily-spiegel-obituary?id=32523222 | title=Emily Spiegel Obituary (2009) - New York, NY - New York Times | website=Legacy.com }}

In 1953, they founded the Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation, which funded charitable, community and educational projects across Long Island.{{cite news |title=Reflections on a half century of Nassau development |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Reflections+on+a+half+century+of+Nassau+development.-a017415753 |access-date=July 1, 2023 |work=Real Estate Weekly |date=August 16, 1995}} The Foundation is responsible for the Jerry and Emily Spiegel Theater at Hofstra University, and a wing at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

In 2001, they gifted Andy Warhol's 1963 Silver Double Elvis to the Museum of Modern Art. The gift was in honor of Kirk Varnedoe, friend to the Spiegels and chief curator of painting and sculpture there from 1988 to 2001.

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