SI Newhouse junior
Samuel Irving (called Si ) Newhouse ( November 8, 1927 - October 1, 2017 ) was an American publisher and philanthropist .
Life
Newhouse shared the management of Advance Publications , the largest privately owned media group in the United States, with his brother Donald Newhouse and was a director of Condé Nast Publications , which publish GQ , Vogue and Vanity Fair , among others .
Forbes led Newhouse in March 2017 with a personal fortune of 12.1 billion US dollars , which he was ranked 109 of the richest people in the world.
Newhouse was also an art collector; he was a previous owner of the most expensive painting in the world : Jackson Pollock's action painting, entitled No. 5, 1948 from 1948. He was also the owner of Piet Mondrian 's last painting Victory Boogie Woogie until 1997 , which has since been part of the collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag .
Web links
- Steve Fishman: Si Newhouse's Dream Factory in New Vork. News & Features , May 31, 2009
- Entry on Forbes' Directory of the Rich
- SI Newhouse Jr., longtime leader of Conde Nast, dead at 89. [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. . Forbes . 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
- ↑ Carol Vogel: A Pollock Is Sold, Possibly for a Record Price The New York Times , November 2, 2006, accessed April 3, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Newhouse, SI junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Newhouse, Samuel Irving (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 2017 |