contracts, 50, 98
fair dealing, 100
high-end, 12
roles, 49, 84, 86, 91, 109
über (top five), 89, 97, 173
See also galleries; individual dealers
Díaz, Jesús Ángel Bergantiños, 108
Díaz, José Carlos Bergantiños, 108
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 159
Doig, Peter, 78, 110
Doige, Peter Edward, 110
Dongsheng, Chen, 63
Edlis, Stefan, 164
Elderfield, John, 176
Embiricos, George, 190
fakes. See under crimes and disputes
Fanjul family, 118
fashion. See under art
Feigen, Richard, 106, 109
Feinerman, Gary, 110
Fine Art Bourse (FAB), 151
Fletcher, Robert, 110
Fleury, Sylvie, 130
Flood, Mark, 156
forgery. See under crimes and disputes
Frankfurt, Jaime, 106
Freedman, Ann, 104, 106, 107
freeports, 121
Freud, Lucian, 27
Naked Portrait on a Red Sofa, 80
Friedland, Leonid, 129
Friedman, David, 100
Gagosian gallery, 12, 74, 76
expansion, 79
ranking, 78, 188
über, 173
Gagosian, Larry, 42, 48, 80, 158
bidding on Three Studies, 28, 29
as Jeff Koons’ dealer, 43, 49
über dealer, 89, 173
v. Perelman, 95
See also dealers; Gagosian gallery; galleries
galleries
art lending, 58
expansions, 73, 75
gallery types, 74
über (five top), 173
Gander, Ryan, 76
Your Bolstered Voice, INS
Ganek, Danielle, 35
Ganek, David, 35
Ganz Collection, 126
Gauguin, Paul
Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?), 189
Geffen, David, 167, 185
Gehrer, Elisabeth, 114
Gemäldegalerie, 184
German Democratic Republic (GDR), 115
Getty Museum. See J. Paul Getty Museum
Getty, J. Paul, 180
Ghenie, Adrian
Nickelodeon, 12, INS
Giacometti, Alberto Chariot, 11, INS
Glenstone (museum), 181
Glimcher, Marc, 79
Goodman, Marian, 12, 74, 92, 173
Goodman, Tim, 151
Gorvy, Brett, 20, 24, 36, 37, 61, 66, 67, 84, 201
formed Levy Gorvy, 60, 89
Gouzer, Loïc, 68, 70
Griffin, Ken, 11
Guggenheim (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), 35, 169
competition in New York, 165, 174
world expansion, 42, 107, 167, 189, 193
Guo-Qiang, Cai, 188
Guzmán, David Martínez, 28, 36
Hauser & Wirth, 89, 173
Heller, Sanford (Sandy), 85, 90
Hirst, Damien, 42, 43, 75, 143, 189
For the Love of God, 132
The Golden Calf, 190, INS
The Miraculous Journey, 193
Hoare, William
Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job ben Solomon), 192
Holloway, Thomas, 207
Houghton family, 184
Howard, John, 105
Hybert, Fabrice, 130
Instagram, 150, 156, 158, 169
internet. See art online
investing. See art investing
Ito, Parker, 13, 156
Wet Paint series, 13
Jinping, Xi, 199
See also China
Joannou, Dakis, 21, 49, 84, 176
Kapnick, Barbara, 98, 100
Kassay, Jacob, 156
Kim, HyunRyoung
Untitled 15, 154, INS
Klimt, Gustav, 183
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 113
Knoedler & Company, 103
Koetser, David, 116
Koons, Jeff, 19, 41, 47, 98
Balloon Dog (Orange), 19, 42, 43, INS
Balloon Flower (Magenta), 20
Celebration series, 48
contracts, 49
Gorilla, 42
Hanging Heart, 20, 48
Jim Beam—J.B. Turner Train, 50, 67, INS
Made in Heaven series, 47
Olive Oyl, 42
Pink Panther, 42
Play-Doh, 47, INS
Popeye, 41, 96
Tulips, 20
Kunst & Antiquitäten GmbH, 115
Kunstmuseum Basel, 190
Kusama, Yayoi, 131
Kwok, Elaine, 70
Lauder, Leonard, 166
Lauder, Ron, 114
Lehman, Arnold, 168
Lehman, Robert, 164
Lengyel, Olga, 117
Lévy, Dominique, 60, 89
Lévy Gorvy, 60, 89
Li, Xin, 67
Lindemann, Adam, 48, 68
Lisson gallery, 12, 73
Loeb, Daniel, 53
Logsdail, Alex, 79
Logsdail, Nicholas, 73, 74, 91
London, 73
Long, Edwin
The Babylonian Marriage Market, 207, INS
Louis Vuitton. See under LVMH
Luxembourg, Daniella, 129
LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE), 129
Fondation Louis Vuitton museum, INS
Louis Vuitton, 131, 134
McGuire, Mick, 53
Maestracci, Phillip, 123
MAFG Art Fund, 96, 100
MAXXI Museum, 184
Mei-Moses index data, 140
Meissner, Helmuth, 115
Meissner, Konrad, 116
Memorial Library, University of the State of New York, 117
Merkin, J. Ezra, 87, 191
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), 164, 165, 170, 189
Meyer, Tobias, 56, 200
Modigliani, Amedeo
Nu couché, 11, 69, INS
Seated Man with a Cane, 123
Tête, 69
Moffett, Charles, 43
Mugrabi, Alberto, 99, 199, 203
Mugrabi, David, 99, 203
Mugrabi, Jose, 23, 99, 203
Murakami, Takashi, 92, 131, 134
Murillo, Oscar, 156
Untitled (Drawings off the wall), 12
Murphy, Steven, 57, 61
museum
curators, 176
diversity, 168
donors, 164, 171, 175, 181
exhibitions, 173
expansion, 165
New York competition, 165
private, 179
revenue and fees, 164, 169, 177
role in art market, 144, 163
See also individual museums
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), 164, 169, 170, 174, 189
Museum of Contemporary Art, Lost Angeles (LAMOCA), 131, 174, 179
Nahmad family, 123
Navascués, Jesús, 118
Nazis, 114, 119, 123
Neeson, Gael, 164
Newman, Helena, 62
Niquesa, Francesco De Simone, 28
Orange Balloon Dog. See under Koons, Jeff
Ordovas, Pilar, 29, 14
Ossorio, Alfonso, 105
Pace gallery
expansion, 12, 80
ranking, 78
über gallery, 74, 89, 173
See also dealers; galleries
Pahlavi, Empress Farah Diba, 184
Panama Papers, 125
Pei-Shen, Qian, 103
Peltz, Nelson, 53
Perelman, Ronald, 95
Perrotin, Emmanuel, 77, 78, 92, 174
Peruggia, Vincenzo, 206
Phillips, 9, 12, 129
de Pury, 85, 152
not luxury brand, 60
Phillips de Pury. See Phillips
Picasso, Pablo
Boy with a Pipe, 56
Buste de Femme (Marie-Thérése), 87
Le Rêve, 25
Picasso, Diana Widmaier, 67
Pi-eX, 142
Pinault, François, 21, 35, 37, 43, 57
Pollock, Jackson, 107
Number 17A, 11
Porter, Marc, 60, 84
Prada, Miuccia, 61, 132
provenance. See authentication
Putin, Vladimir, 124, 199
Pylkkänen, Jussi, 22, 28, 68
Qatar, 37, 87, 187
Qatar Museums Authority (QM), 187, 189
See also al-Thani, Sheikha
Rales, Emily Wei, 181
Rales, Mitchell P., 181
Richter, Gerhard, 19
Domplatz, Mailand, 20
Rivera, Carlos, 156
Rodriguez, Mariano
La Hamaca, 118
Rosales, Glafira, 104
Rossi, Laura Mattioli, 69
Rothko, Mark, 191
Homage to Matisse, 190
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 189
Rothkopf, Scott, 42
Rotter, Alex, 62, 66
Roubini, Nouriel, 139
Roy, Jean-Pierre
Entopticon 1, INS
Nachlass, 159
Rubens, Peter Paul
The Garden of Eden With the Fall of Man, 37
Ruby, Sterling, 156
Ruprecht, William, 54, 56, 57
Russia, 124
art market, 133, 199
collectors, 80, 86
Rybolovlev, Dmitry, 89, 126
Saatchi Art Online, 153
Saatchi, Charles, 144, 153
Schimmel, Paul, 131, 176
Schmerler, Charles, 105
Schoenberg, E. Randol, 113
Schwartzman, Allan, 58, 84, 88
security
confidentiality, 86, 110, 124
freeports, 121
Ségalot, Philippe, 35
Seydoux, Thomas, 86, 87
Shaw, Simon, 66
Shin, Hong Gyu, 28, 70
Simchowitz, Stefan, 12, 149, 159
Skarstedt, Per, 35
Smith, Lucien, 199
Smith, Tad, 57, 62, 88
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. See Guggenheim
Sonnabend Gallery, 50, 97
Sotheby’s, 106, 142
AAP acquisition, 58, 88
advertising, 15
art lending rules, 59
attracting clients, 65, 68
Australia, 152
dealing with forgery, 118
New York, 9, 11, 41
revenue, 55
selling online, 150, 153
supporting museum exhibitions, 43
Taubman influence, 210
Sotheby’s, investor takeover
activist investors, 53
competition with Christie’s, 61
fallout and exodus, 56, 62
Loeb letter, 54
new major shareholder, 63
Spink & Son, 126
Staechelin, Rudolf, 190
Staller, Ilona, 47
Strunin, Leonid, 129
Swarovski, 132
Tahmasp, Shah
Shahnama (“Book of Kings”), 184
Taubman, Alfred, 210
Taubman, Nicholas, 106, 210
tax, 95
avoidance of, 29, 77, 126, 152
deferral of, 25
“exhibited” provision, 43
and freeports, 121, 125
on investment art, 140
status for private museums, 181
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 183
Third Point, 53
Turner Prize, 76
Twombly, Cy
Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (1), 99
United Talent Agency (UTA), 91
Van de Weghe, Christophe, 33, 37
Venice Biennale, 174
Warhol, Andy, 10, 84, 135, 203
Converse Campbell’s Soup Can Sneakers, 135, INS
Four Marlons, 10
Men in Her Life, 191
Shoes, 155
Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), 56
Triple Elvis [Ferus Type], 10
wealth inequality, 11, 135, 181
wealthiest people in world, 11, 58, 66, 164, 198
Wei, Wang, 70, 71
Weischer, Matthias, 198
Wand (Wall), 199
Weissman, Julian, 104
Weldon, Henry and June, 116
Werner, Michael, 78
Westphal, Cheyenne, 62
WestSpiel casino, 10
Whitney Museum of American Art, 165
Koons retrospective (2014), 41
Wildenstein family, 123
William Morris Endeavor, 92
Wong, Patty, 66
Wool, Christopher, 34
Apocalypse Now, 30, 33, INS
THE HARDER YOU LOOK, THE HARDER YOU LOOK, 34
Trouble, 34
Untitled, 35
World Economic Forum, 139
Wynn, Elaine, 29
Wynn, Steve, 25, 29, 41, 43
Yiqian, Liu, 11, 70
Zwirner, David, 22, 79, 173
Alberto Giacometti, Chariot (1950). Painted bronze on wood base, 57 × 26 × 26 inches (145 × 66 × 66 cm), base 93/4 × 41/2 × 91/4 inches (24 × 12 × 24 cm). © Estate of Alberto Giacometti/SODRAC (2016). Sotheby‘s London employees pose next to Chariot during a 2014 press preview. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images.
Amedeo Modigliani, Nu couché (1917–18), oil on canvas, 23.6 × 36.2 inches (60 × 92 cm), photographed at Christie‘s sale, New York, November 9, 2015. Work is public domain, image accessed through Wikimedia Commons.
Adrian Ghenie, Nickelodeon (2008), oil, acrylic and tape on canvas (in two parts), each 94 × 82 inches (238 × 207 cm), overall: 94 × 166 inches, (238 × 414 cm). © Adrian Ghenie, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo courtesy Galeria Plan B, Berlin.
Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (Orange) (1994–2000), mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent colour coating, 121 × 143 × 45 inches (307 × 363 × 114 cm). One of five unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Orange, Red, Yellow). Courtesy of the artist, © Jeff Koons, photo Tom Powel Imaging.
Francis Bacon, Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) (titled and dated ’3 studies for portrait Lucian Freud 1969‘ on the reverse of the centre panel) triptych, oil on canvas, each: 78 × 58 inches (198 × 147.5 cm). © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS/SODRAC (2016). A member of Christie‘s staff with Three Studies of Lucian Freud in 2013. Photo credit Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.
Christopher Wool, Apocalypse Now (1988), enamel and flashe on aluminum, 84 × 72 inches (213 × 183 cm). © Christopher Wool. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
Jeff Koons, Play-Doh (1994–2014), polychromed aluminum, 123 × 152.25 × 137 inches (312 × 387 × 348 cm), courtesy of the artist, © Jeff Koons, photo Tom Powel Imaging.
Jeff Koons, Jim Beam–J.B. Turner Train (1986), stainless steel, bourbon, 11 × 114 × 61/2 inches (27.94 × 289.56 × 16.51 cm), shown prior to an April 2014 auction at Christie‘s New York. Each of the seven train cars holds a fifth of bourbon. Credit Christie‘s, Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images.
Ryan Gander, Your Bolstered Voice (dramaturgical framework for structure and stability) (2016). Stainless steel, brass, aluminium wire and plastic sleeving. 73 × 47 × 10 inches (186 × 120 × 26 cm). From the exhibition I see straight through you at Lisson Gallery New York, 2016. Photo credit Jack Herns, image courtesy Lisson Gallery, London.
Willem de Kooning, Woman III (1952–53), oil on canvas, 68 × 48 inches (173 × 123 cm), one of six paintings by de Kooning done between 1951 and 1953 in which the central theme was a woman. Photo is from a media preview in April 2009 of an exhibition at Sotheby‘s New York entitled Women. © Estate of Willem de Kooning/SODRAC (2016). Photo credit Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images.
Chanel Mobile Art, 700 sq. m, 165,000 kg building for mobile art by Chanel. De
signed by Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, shown in central Hong Kong in 2008. Photo credit Stefan Irvine/LightRocket via Getty Images.
Converse Campbell‘s Soup Can Sneakers (2015). Sneakers are part of Spring 2015 Converse Chuck Taylor Andy Sneaker and Apparel Collection. Photo by Converse.
HyunRyoung Kim, Untitled 15 (2013), acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 inches (122 × 91 cm), image and image and photo courtesy HyunRyoung Kim.
Jean-Pierre Roy, Entopticon 1 (2016), oil on linen, 48 × 48 inches (122 × 122 cm), credit Gallery Poulsen photo Copenhagen and the artist.
Bernard Arnault, Fondation Louis Vuitton museum in Paris (2014), architect Frank Gehry. Credit Fondation Louis Vuitton, photo Andia/UIG from Getty Images.
Damien Hirst, The Golden Calf (2008), glass, gold, gold-plated stainless steel, silicone, calf and formaldehyde solution with Carrara marble plinth, 157 × 138 × 66 inches (399 × 351 × 168 cm) including plinth. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd., all rights reserved, SODRAC 2016. Photo credit Prudence Cuming Associates. The title refers to the Exodus account of the Israelites‘ idolatrous worship of a Golden Calf during Moses‘s absence. As in traditional artistic depictions of the idol, Hirst‘s calf is crowned with a sun disc of solid gold, a symbol of pagan deification.
Edwin Long, The Babylonian Marriage Market, oil on canvas (1875), 68 × 122 inches (172 × 304 cm). Photo is public domain, accessed through The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei, distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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