After a lifetime as a middle man for great works of art, Michael Findlay wants us to actually see and appreciate them again—and maybe have a little more fun while doing it. Findlay, of course, is still selling art privately at Acquavella Gallery, a role he’s held for almost a quarter-century, long after most of his contemporaries have retired or passed on. At 79 years old, he can boast of having presided over Christie’s Impressionist and Modern department in New York during the boom of the 1980s—when works by Van Gogh, such as the Portrait of Dr. Gachet, were selling for spectacular prices—as well as surviving the bust of the 1990s.