Larry Gagosian

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Larry Gagosian (born April 19, 1945 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American art dealer of Armenian origin for modern and contemporary art .

Career

Larry Gagosian (branch name: Go-Go) ran a poster shop in Santa Monica before opening a contemporary art gallery in San Francisco in 1977 . His first artists included Richard Serra , Frank Stella and Jean-Michel Basquiat , whose works he sold primarily to film celebrities in Hollywood , but also to industrialists on the American west coast. He is considered a sales genius. In 1985, Gagosian opened a gallery in a penthouse on Madison Avenue in New York . In the same year he founded another gallery in cooperation with Leo Castelli at 65, Thompson Street in SoHo . At the beginning of the 1990s, another gallery in New York was added in Wooster Street with a former garage lit by a skylight, in which the heavy-weight sculptures by Richard Serra and Walter de Maria could be exhibited. Serra's sculpture "Intersection II" was sold directly from the garage to the Museum of Modern Art .

Gagosian Gallery

Gallery name board at the entrance to the Gagosian Gallery branch in New York

With his Gagosian Gallery, Gagosian has built a "gallery empire" that makes him one of the world's most powerful art dealers. He shows the painters and sculptors he represents in his own galleries at eight locations in New York, Beverly Hills , London , Basel , Geneva , Rome and Athens as well as at international art fairs. In addition, he arranges exhibitions by these artists at museums and other private art galleries around the world. For an exhibition by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami , through the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, in 2008 he completely furnished all rooms of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main with works of art, but also with merchandising items. Gagosian does not exhibit any young, up-and-coming artists, but takes over their representation only after their market penetration. He represents Damien Hirst , Tracey Emin , Glenn Brown , Frank Stella , Rachel Whiteread , Jake and Dinos Chapman , John Currin , Jasper Johns , Gilbert and George and Nan Goldin , as well as the Andy Warhol estate . Charles Saatchi is one of the most famous collectors who have worked with Gagosian over the long term .

In 2003 the US government charged Larry Gagosian and three of his business associates with evading income tax of $ 26.5 million. In January 2016, Gagosian hit the headlines for a Picasso plaster bust that he allegedly sold twice. The case was heard in a New York court and settled in June 2016 after payment of financial compensation of an unknown amount.

The annual art trade sales of all Larry Gagosian's activities are estimated at $ 925 million.

Locations

As a global art company, Gagosian has galleries in New York (three locations), Beverly Hills , London (two locations), Rome , Paris (two locations), Athens , Basel and Geneva as well as offices in Hong Kong and La Jolla .

The renovation of an industrial building planned by the French architect Jean Nouvel at the former Le Bourget airport north of Paris was opened for use in October 2012 with an exhibition by Anselm Kiefer Morgenthau Plan .

Artists traded by the gallery

Exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Serra's sculpture “Intersection II” in a video on YouTube
  2. ↑ New York art scene in art magazine 12/1994  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de  
  3. ↑ Catrin Lorch : Great art for large walls. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 29./30. September 2012, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Charlotte Higgins: King's Cross a Go-Go as top US art dealer unveils new gallery. In: The Guardian , May 10, 2004 (English).
  5. ↑ Carol Vogel: Art Dealer and 3 Others South Over $ 26.5 Million in Taxes. In: The New York Times , March 20, 2003 (English)
  6. ↑ Olga Kronsteiner: Million-dollar dispute about Picasso sculpture In: Der Standard , January 31, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2016.
  7. ↑ Picasso in New York, Calm in London In: Der Standard , June 27, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016.
  8. ↑ Thomas Hüetlin : Limit uncertain In: Der Spiegel , December 3, 2012.
  9. ^ Brita Sachs: On the hunt for Paris. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 26, 2012.
  10. ^ FAZ of August 18, 2010, page 35
  11. ↑ Blood and Breasts in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on December 30, 2012, page 53

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personal data
SURNAME Gagosian, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles