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...Do you acquire what the market boosts or fashion promotes — one each of Koons, Warhol, Richter and Twombly, say? Not if you’re Ronald Lauder....
...In May this year, “Rabbit”, a shiny, stainless steel sculpture created by Jeff Koons in 1986, sold in New York for $91.1m, re-establishing Koons as the world’s most expensive living artist....
...Many of today’s artists, however, seem to survive the experience, and stands at this year’s ABHK host artists from Jeff Koons to Tracey Emin....
...Obama eventually replaced the rug in 2010 with one bearing quotations from four former presidents and Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr....
...Artists ranging from Jeff Koons to Julian Opie, for example, collect Old Masters enthusiastically....
...The likes of Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst have teams of assistants making their work – yet these people, never namechecked, can hardly be called collaborators....
...However the Koons was not delivered in time and Perelman “paid” for the Twombly and Serra by returning the rights to the Koons to Gagosian, plus giving other “unwanted” works of art to the dealer....
...“The idea was to organise, almost everywhere across the region, contemporary art exhibitions,” says researcher Dr Pierre-Alain Four, who evaluated the role of the Frac for his doctorate....
...Even my children, aged 11, eight, and six, and largely uninterested in fashion unless it involves Dr Martens or monsters, begged to see this video three times....
...Other art purchases last year are thought to include a group of 11 Rothkos; at least some of the $400m Sonnabend estate with works by Koons and Lichtenstein; and a $63.5m Warhol....
...Other Pinchuk favourites are Koons and Richard Prince: the Ukrainian reportedly bought Koons’ “Hanging Heart” for $23m in 2007....
..., director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain; John Studzinski, founder of the Genesis foundation; and artist Jeff Koons....
...Dr Harald Falckenberg is a German collector based in Hamburg, who owns about 1,700 pieces, including an extraordinary room collaboration between Paul McCarthy and Jason Rhoades....
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