Ten years ago, I filmed a wonderful interview with Jordy Berman of The Illustrated Gallery – one of the most extraordinary private collections I’ve ever seen of 20th Century illustration. Jordy not only owns a number of Richard Amsel’s original works, but he was good friends with Amsel’s parents, and had met Richard a few times during the artist’s formative years. It was through Jordy that I was able to buy Amsel’s self-portrait, done back when he was just a teenager. My fi