Annie Armstrong, In 1980, he opened a gallery in Los Angeles, specializing in modern and contemporary art. [8] In 2010, internet pioneer David Bohnett sold his 5,700 square foot Holmby Hills compound, originally designed by A. Quincy Jones for Gary Cooper, to Gagosian for $15.5 million, according to public records. } [11] After establishing a Manhattan gallery in the mid-1980s, located at the ground-floor space in artist Sandro Chias studio building at 521 West 23rd Street,[8] Gagosian began to work with a stable of super collectors including David Geffen, Newhouse, Saatchi, and David Ganek. Already, people are buzzing about The Guilt of Gold Teeth (1982), which is estimated to rake in around $40 million at Christies New York next month. Larry Gagosian himself has succession plans in place but remains very actively in charge at 77, 50 years older than his girlfriend, artist Anna Weyant - who is now represented by him and indeed features heavily in the latest quarterly magazine alongside articles on FRIENDS AND RELATIONS: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael . Matt Chaban and Sarah Douglas (August 23, 2011), New York University Institute of Fine Arts, "Art Smart: Larry Gagosian was regarded as an arriviste in the gallery world of New York. }, NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - The sale of a vividly-coloured Marilyn Monroe portrait by late artist Andy Warhol for a record US$195 million (S$272 million) has drawn attention to Mr Larry Gagosian,. slideInModal('Down'); Gagosian also briefly dated Holly Bawden, his 35-year-old former personal assistant, later in 2019, the outlet reported. Five years later he expanded his activities to New York, opening a gallery in Chelsea with an exhibition of key works from the renowned Pop art collection of Emily and Burton. For a year, she has been dating 71-year-old Larry Gagosian, and last month she signed a global representation agreement with the famous. For the next two and a half hours, the room watched attentively as work by established 20th century names like Ed Ruscha, Francis Bacon, and Cy Twombly sold for tens of millions of dollars, the numbers drifting by like dandelion fluff. + '
' // Extends jQuery with a function to serialize to JSON function initNewsletterSignup() { I called him up and asked him if he would give me . Already, people are buzzing about, If the piece hammers near its estimate, itll nearly double the recent sale of another Basquiat. It wouldnt be the change of the season in New York City without chatter about what record-breaking Jean-Michel Basquiat piece is next slated to come to auction. function setNewsletterCookie(cookieName, value) { function appendNewsletterSignup() { Sign In. customSerializer: function(){ Charlie Finch, a cantankerous columnist whose gossipy writings were widely read in the New York scene, has died at 68. Her work is probably derivative of John Currin right now, but I think shell grow into her own thing. bump into friends and more-than-friends at parties that you may or may not have both coordinated attending in advance? top: 'auto', Whispers of drama havent been confined to the artists personal life. Lawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosian (born April 19, 1945) is an American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries. Summertime, Ms. Weyants portrait of a woman with long, flowing hair that the artist had sold for around $12,000 two years before, resold for $1.5 million, five times its high estimate. addCss('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/animate.css/3.5.2/animate.min.css'); It is hard to imagine an art world without Larry Gagosian in it. + '<\/style>' crossDomain: true, + '