Michael Audain

Works by Michael Audain:

• One Man in his Time: A Memoir
• Pictures on the Wall: Building a Canadian Art Collection

From ABC BookWorld, "Michael Audain is the founder and chairman of Polygon Homes Ltd. He lives with his wife Yoshiko Karasawa in Vancouver. He wrote the memoir, One Man in his Time: A Memoir (Douglas & McIntyre $36.95) and also Pictures on the Wall (Harbour $60) about his art collection, which is housed in an art museum he built in Whistler.

Michael Audain began collecting art as a teenager. Later, with his wife Yoshiko Karasawa, this collection grew to be one of the most notable private collections in the country. From early to contemporary Indigenous art, Emily Carr paintings, works by Mexican modernists and recently the Quebecois artist, Jean-Paul Riopelle, the pieces are some of the best in Canada. In Pictures on the Wall (Harbour $60), Audain writes candidly about seventy-five significant works from his collection including colour photographs of each artwork."