Henry Ford II (1917–1987) was the grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Company. His father, Edsel Bryant Ford, had served as president of the company, a position Henry assumed in 1945. In addition to his interest in the automotive industry, Henry was passionate about art, a taste he had also acquired from his grandfather and father. Together with his first wife, Anne McDonnell, he purchased a large number of works and later donated some of them, such as Cézanne’sMan in a Blue Robeor Picasso’s The Absinthe Glass (Mahler, 2018).