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Eli Broad Goes Shopping as Sotheby’s Art Auction Falls Short

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
November 12, 2008 9:48 pm

 Eli Broad and fashion designer Valentino were among the collectors who converged on Sotheby’s in New York last night to pick through big-name contemporary art at discount prices.“It’s a half-price ... Read more »

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Billionaire Pinchuk Buys Hirst Works

Filed under Art, Victor Pinchuk - EastOne
September 30, 2008 6:56 pm

Steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk said he was one of the buyers of Damien Hirst’s works at a Sotheby’s auction in London earlier this month. Pinchuk spoke in an interview as ... Read more »

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Roman Abramovich sets record art transfer

Filed under Roman Abramovich, Art
May 19, 2008 12:30 pm

They cost as much as football players but are likely to be a far wiser investment. In the week that saw two record-breaking sales of paintings by Lucian Freud and ... Read more »

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Faberge Fan Ivanov Reveals Why He Paid $17.7 Million for an Egg

Filed under Lifestyle, Art, Alexander Ivanov
February 26, 2008 10:39 am

Alexander Ivanov has written himself into auction history as the man who spent $17.7 million on an egg. When the hammer came down for a record price on the gold ... Read more »

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Mr. Broad Builds His Dream Museum

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
February 14, 2008 11:09 pm

Eli Broad quit the real estate business years ago, but he hasn’t stopped developing things. His latest project is the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a new wing at the Los ... Read more »

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Broad Museum Set to Open in Los Angeles Without Much Broad Art

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
January 30, 2008 6:31 pm

The Louvre has its “Mona Lisa,” the Museum of Modern Art its Picassos. What does the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have? A new house for works that ... Read more »

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Sotheby’s, Christie’s Report Record Russian Art Sales in 2007

Filed under Lifestyle, Art
January 11, 2008 12:20 pm

The world’s top two auction houses, Christie’s International and Sotheby’s, profited from an expanding Russian economy with its growing ranks of newly rich collectors to score a record year in ... Read more »

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Eli Broad Opts to Hold On to His Collection

Filed under Eli Broad, Art
January 8, 2008 5:43 pm

 Eli Broad, the billionaire financier and philanthropist whose private collection of some 2,000 works of Modern and contemporary art is one of the most sought-after by museums nationwide, has decided ... Read more »

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Rubenstein Buys Magna Carta of 1297 for $21.3 Million

Filed under Art, Ross Perot - Perot Systems, David Rubenstein - Carlyle Group
December 19, 2007 11:24 am

David Rubenstein, co-founder of the private-equity firm Carlyle Group, last night bought a 1297 copy of the Magna Carta, an English royal document and symbol of freedom, for $21.3 million ... Read more »

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Stanley Ho Beats Damien Hirst in Record $330,000 Truffle Sale

Filed under Art, Stanley Ho - ShunTak Holdings
December 2, 2007 8:05 pm

Macau billionaire Stanley Ho paid a record $330,000 for a white truffle at a charity auction, beating competing bids from the U.K. artist Damien Hirst and Sheik Mansoor Bin ... Read more »

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Jeweler Graff Spends $40 Million on Warhol, Basquiat, Diamonds

Filed under Art, Laurence Graff
November 16, 2007 10:37 am

  London jeweler and art collector Laurence Graff spent more than $40 million this week on Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings in New York, plus red and blue diamonds ... Read more »

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Lau lifts sale with $39m Gauguin bid

Filed under Art, Joseph Lau
November 9, 2007 6:26 pm

 big bid by Joseph Lau, the Hong Kong-based billionaire, enlivened an otherwise flat sale of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby’s on Wednesday night, underlining the impact that Chinese and ... Read more »

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How Anselm Reyle’s Paintings Soared From $14,000 to $634,000

Filed under Art, Francois Pinault - Pinault Printemps Redoute
October 30, 2007 3:54 pm

  In less than two years, the colorful, stripe-rich paintings of Anselm Reyle have vaulted him from modest success to six-figure star. The metamorphosis says a lot about the contemporary-art ... Read more »

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Billionaire Pinchuk, With Seven Hirsts, Is Art’s Mystery Buyer

Filed under Art, Victor Pinchuk - EastOne
October 25, 2007 7:22 am

  Victor Pinchuk, a steel billionaire, has provided the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in the art market.There has been much speculation about the buyers of contemporary masterpieces ... Read more »

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CONTEMPORARY (ART) MADNESS

Filed under Eli Broad, Art, Predictions
October 21, 2007 7:26 pm

Billionaire contemporary art collector Eli Broad, who has amassed an 1,800-piece collection and will have a wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) named after him in ... Read more »

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Pinault Stays Top Of Art World Power List

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Art, Francois Pinault - Pinault Printemps Redoute
October 12, 2007 3:36 pm

French billionaire Francois Pinault held on to number one spot in an annual list of leading figures in the contemporary art world, while Britain’s Damien Hirst was the top-ranking ... Read more »

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The Art World’s Most Influential People,Chosen by ArtReview Magazine’s Panel

Filed under Stevie Cohen - SAC, Eli Broad, Art, Francois Pinault - Pinault Printemps Redoute
October 11, 2007 8:46 pm

1. François Pinault Collector, French Two years ago Mr. Pinault, now 71, purchased the Palazzo Grassi on the Grand Canal in Venice, employing Japanese architect Tadao Ando to transform ... Read more »

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Art World Is Roiled By Wal-Mart Heiress

Filed under Art, Alice Walton
October 10, 2007 11:45 pm

The art world is of two minds about Alice Walton. Two years ago, the Wal-Mart heiress purchased Asher B. Durand’s “Kindred Spirits” (1849) from the New York Public Library for ... Read more »

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Tycoon donates art to Russian presidential residence

Filed under Philanthrophy, Art, Alisher Usmanov
October 1, 2007 5:54 pm

Russian billionaire on Monday donated the renown Rostropovich art collection to a St Petersburg presidential residence renovated on the orders of President Vladimir Putin. Alisher Usmanov, worth an estimated ... Read more »

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Leonard Lauder’s Klimt landscape belongs to me, says heir of Nazi victim

Filed under Art, Leonard Lauder
September 27, 2007 3:23 pm

  A Gustav Klimt painting that hangs in the New York apartment of billionaire philanthropist and collector Leonard Lauder is being claimed by a descendant of the Viennese family from ... Read more »

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