I had a handshake deal with Geffen, Cohen says, but he reneged on it. Geffen says the Johns painting was never for sale. var cookieSettings = { At the same time, he conducts sales on the so-called secondary marketa term he hatesby privately buying and selling artworks to clients. It took six years for the auction houses to catch up with Gagosian: In 2013, a 1969 triptych by Francis Bacon sold for a then-record $142.4 million. Lauren Hutton Now. var c = ca[i]; document.cookie = prefix + cname + "=" + cvalue + ";" + expires + ";path=/"; Its a laissez-faire form of business, he says. Christian Georgia Gavigan, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Owen D. Gavigan of Locust, N.J., was married yesterday to Armand Bartholomew Erpf, a son of Susan M. Erpf-Van de Bovenkamp of New York. I think Leo just liked him, Dorothy Lichtenstein says. // Signup validation Lisa Marie Presley's daughter Riley Keough secretly welcomed first child This story has been shared 27,012 times. 22,508, This story has been shared 17,520 times. He has immediate opinions about things., Gagosians aggressive styleand his Armani suitsalso fit in with the corporate leaders and superpower agents who represented a new guard of collectors. At a certain point, I realized that Larry was very connectedhe was informing a lot of people about the work, remembers Koons, who began working with Gagosian regularly in 2001. Heath Ledger's daughter Matilda, 17, is the spitting image of the late actor as she steps out in NYC . Working with the gallery, says painter John Currin, is such a huge stage for what I think of as my kind of intimate art. Gagosian is an American art dealer and the owner of the art gallery Gagosian Gallery. }); Please log off from any other devices, and then reload this page continue. $('body').append(signup); $form.find('.errors').children().hide(); validate: function( $form, $email ){ This story has been shared 77,304 times. (Next Impact), Is Glenstone Great or a Billionaires Folly? Born in 1995 in Calgary, Canada, Weyant studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, which she says she attended because it was the closest school to New York City that accepted her. The sculpture had been reused as part of a medieval wall. if (prefix == undefined) { // Focus on the email input box The singer may have the talent . But in fact, it was just a copy designed to drum up publicity for the Vienna museum. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Famed art dealer Larry Gagosians much younger girlfriend has been identified as a woman named Holly Bawden who was once his assistant, multiple sources confirmed to Page Six. closeSignupBar(); Alberto Giacometti, Paul Rosenberg // Show email validation error and hide other errors (Hauser & Wirth and A Paris tribunal found in favor of the Louvre. ), It was not the kind of show that you would normally see in a commercial gallery, says Sir Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate museums and galleries, who was then at Londons nonprofit Whitechapel Gallery. Richard Serra, var i = cookieNames.length, Gagosian with his girlfriend, Chrissie Erpf, and collector Steve Martin in 2013 . The Ransom: Directed by William Shatner. // dataType: 'json', signedUp: { break; $modal.addClass( $modal.hasClass('slideInUp') ? THESE DAYS, Gagosian no longer wears an Armani power suit. Chrissie played squash at. data: JSON.stringify( $form.serializeFormJSON() ), + '