Art Fortune's List of the 232 Top International Art Collectors
1. Art Collector:
Juan Abello
Location:
Madrid
Employment:
Finance and Industry, Doctor and a Permanent Member of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy, currently the Chairman of Torreal and Alcaliber
Art Collection:
Collects Spanish Old Masters; modern and contemporary art, especially Spanish
2. Art Collector:
Anita and Poju Zabludowicz
Location:
London
Employment:
Technology and real estate
Plans to build an art museum in downtown Las Vegas
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
3. Art Collector:
Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova
Location:
Moscow
Employment:
Steel, mining, investments, and professional soccer (Chelsea Football Club)
Transforming New Holland Island into art metropolis
Art Collection:
Collects modern and contemporary art
4. Art Collector:
Barbara and Ted Alfond
Location:
Weston, Massachusetts; Vail, Colorado
Employment:
Fashion (retired)
Built new sports center for Rollins College
Art Collection:
Collects american art and furniture
5. Art Collector:
Paul Allen
Location:
Seattle
Employment:
Computer software and sports franchises, co found Microsoft
Founder and Chairman of Vulcan Inc., own NFL, NBA, MLS teams
Art Collection:
Collects impressionism, Old Masters; modern and contemporary art; tribal art
6. Art Collector:
Lonn Apfel
Location:
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Employment:
Collecting for over 12 years
Art Collection:
Realism
7. Art Collector:
Placido Arango
Location:
Valdemorillo (Madrid), Spain
Employment:
Retail, fast food, founded Wal-mart Mexico
Art Collection:
Spanish Old Masters; modern and contemporary art
8. Art Collector:
Helene and Bernard Arnault
Location:
Paris
Employment:
CEO of French Luxury goods company (LVMH), owns Christian Dior and Le Bon Marche, created a Louis Vuitton foundation for contemporary art
Art Collection:
Collects contemporary art
9. Art Collector:
Laura and John Arnold
Location:
Houston
Employment:
started at Enron, Hedge fund, giving away half of salary to The Giving Pledge
Art Collection:
Impressionism; postwar and contemporary art
10. Art Collector:
Hans Rasmus Astrup
Location:
Oslo, based in London
Employment:
Shipping- and finance-related activities
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
11. Art Collector:
Maria Baibakova and Oleg Baybakov
Location:
Moscow
Employment:
Inheritance and mining industries; father is mining oligarch Oleg Baibakova
Russian art center owner and heiress Maria Baibakova is the 24-year-old founder of Baibakov Art Projects, a private, non-profit contemporary art center in Moscow, has scoped out art scenes in India; Cairo, Egypt; the UAE; and Cape Town, South Africa
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
12. Art Collector:
Cristina and Thomas W. Bechtler-Lanfranconi
Location:
Kusnacht, Switzerland
Employment:
Investments and real estate
Art Collection:
Contemporary art; photography
13. Art Collector:
Hank And Mary Beckman
Location:
Dallas, TX
Employment:
Art Collection:
collects traditional western, Russian Impressionist, contemporary western, and old illustrators.
14. Art Collector:
Maria and William Bell Jr.
Location:
Los Angeles
Employment:
Television production, creator and executive producer of the The Young and the Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
15. Art Collector:
Claude Berri
Location:
Employment:
Actor, director and filmmaker
His recent films as a producer include: Jean-Jacques Annaud's "The Lover" 1992, Patrice Chereau's "Queen Margot/La reine Margot" 1994 and Josiane Balasko's "French Twist" 1995.
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art, especially works by French artists.
The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, The American Associates of the
Royal National Theatre, The Living Room for Artists, Inc./Summer Play
Festival, and Trinity School. In addition, she is Vice Chairman of the New York
State Council on the Arts and chairs its Performing Arts Committee. Old Masters; Impressionism; modern painting; Chinese sculpture; contemporary art
16. Art Collector:
Joe Berardo
Location:
Portugal
Employment:
mining in South Africa and Australia, investments in media, manufacturing, and hotel sectors.
Art Collection:
His collection in the 20th century art is on loan to the Sintra Museum of Modern Art, near Lisbon and includes important works by Warhol, Arp, Acconci and Zorio.
17. Art Collector:
Stephanie And Bill Birdsall
Location:
Tucson, AZ
Employment:
has been collecting for over 20 years
Art Collection:
collects representational landscapes, florals, still lifes, seascapes
18. Art Collector:
Leon Black
Location:
Employment:
Private equity specialist
Art Collection:
On the board of the MET and MOMA
funded biography of Pablo Picasso
Collects old masters and contemporary art worth $750 million
19. Art Collector:
Nelson Blitz Jr. and Catherine Woodard
Location:
New York and Rye, New York
Employment:
HVAC mechanical contracting
Art Collection:
German Expressionism; modern and contemporary art; Wiener Werkstatte metalwork and furniture
20. Art Collector:
Neil G. Bluhm
Location:
Chicago
Employment:
Real estate, investments, owns the Chicago's Four Seasons Hotel and MGM Tower in Los Angeles, apart from a number of casinos. He also owns the real estate investment firm JMB Realty
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
21. Art Collector:
Leland And Larita Boren
Location:
Upland, IN
Employment:
owns over 250 paintings, 80 bronzes, and 11 kachina dolls
Art Collection:
collects Western fine art
22. Art Collector:
Christian Boros
Location:
Berlin and Wuppertal, Germany
Employment:
Communications and new media, started BOROS GmbH, which quickly expanded and attracted lots of attention for its unusual works with the youth channel VIVA for example. In 1999 I founded BOROS.INTERAKTIV GmbH. located in Wuppertal, Berlin and New York. Besides classic economic enterprises and media brands, museums and cultural institutions are also among his customers.
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
23. Art Collector:
Frances Bowes
Location:
San Francisco and Sonoma, California; New York
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
24. Art Collector:
David Bowie
Location:
Employment:
pop musician
avid painter
Art Collection:
collects modern and Contemporary Art, particularly British
25. Art Collector:
Irma and Norman Braman
Location:
Miami Beach
Employment:
Automobile dealerships in Florida and Colorado, active in Holocaust awareness and education. Instrumental in bringing the Holocaust Memorial to Miami Beach and have slain journalist Daniel Pearl's name etched into the monument. The Norman and Irma Braman Family Foundation helped create the Braman Breast Cancer Institute at the University of Miami in 2002, and Mr. Braman still sits on the school's board of trustees as vice chair.
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art, especially American
26. Art Collector:
Udo Brandhorst
Location:
Cologne, Germany
Employment:
Insurance, Brandhorst Museum
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
27. Art Collector:
Peter M. Brant
Location:
Greenwich, Connecticut
Employment:
Newsprint manufacturing
Art Collection:
has over 2,000 works by Warhol. Collects contemporary art; design; furniture
28. Art Collector:
Edythe L. and Eli
Location:
Los Angeles
Employment:
Financial services and housing development (retired), built the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University
Art Collection:
Collects contemporary art
29. Art Collector:
Bettina and Donald L. Bryant Jr
Location:
New York; Indian Wells, California
Employment:
Executive and employee benefits
American masters of the second half of the 20th century; Abstract Expressionism, especially de Kooning; trustee of the MOMA in NY, owns Picasso's and Pollock's
Art Collection:
collect contemporary art
30. Art Collector:
Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy
Location:
Connecticut; Colorado; New York
Employment:
Inheritance (shopping malls) and commodities trading
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
31. Art Collector:
Frieder Burda
Location:
Baden-Baden, Germany
Employment:
Publishing, Opened the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden.
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art, especially German Expressionism, owns a Jackson Pollock
32. Art Collector:
Monique and Max Burger
Location:
Hong Kong
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
sending many of their 1,200-plus works on the road in a series of exhibitions called the "Quadrilogy" project.
collects Post-1990s art
33. Art Collector:
Joop van Caldenborgh
Location:
Wassenaar, the Netherlands
Employment:
Chemical industry (Caldic)
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art, especially Conceptual; photography; sculpture
34. Art Collector:
Mickey Cartin
Location:
New York; Delray Beach, Florida
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Late medieval and Early Renaissance painting; 20th-century painting; emerging artists; illuminated manuscripts
35. Art Collector:
Howard And Penny Chambers
Location:
Arvada, CO
Employment:
acquired over 250 works over their last 25 collecting years
Art Collection:
collects mostly contemporary western, occasionally art by deceased artists and used to collect contemporary Russian art
36. Art Collector:
Pierre Chen
Location:
Taipei, Taiwan
Employment:
Electronics
Art Collection:
Western and Chinese modern and contemporary art; Chinese imperial porcelain art
37. Art Collector:
Halit Cingillioglu
Location:
Istanbul
Employment:
Banking
Art Collection:
Impressionism; postwar, modern, and contemporary art
38. Art Collector:
Ella Fontanals Cisneros
Location:
Miami; Madrid; Gstaad, Switzerland
Employment:
Investments, real estate, and telecommunications
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, video, and photography, with an emphasis on architecture and historical geometric abstraction from Latin America. What started as personal enjoyment has matured into a life-project
39. Art Collector:
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros
Location:
Caracas, Venezuela; Dominican Republic; New York
Employment:
Media, entertainment, and telecommunications
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary Latin American art; 19th-century traveler artists to Latin America; colonial art and objects from Latin America; Amazonian ethnographic objects
40. Art Collector:
Alexandra and Steven A. Cohen
Location:
Greenwich, Connecticut
Employment:
Hedge fund, equity market strategies.
Art Collection:
Impressionism; modern and contemporary art, bought over $700 million worth of art
41. Art Collector:
Cherryl and Frank Cohen
Location:
Manchester, England
Employment:
Home-improvement stores
Art Collection:
Contemporary art; modern British art
42. Art Collector:
Eileen and Michael Cohen
Location:
New York
Employment:
Packaging and paper products
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially video
43. Art Collector:
Eduardo F. Costantini
Location:
Buenos Aires
Employment:
Asset management and real estate
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary Latin American art
44. Art Collector:
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
Location:
Key Biscayne, Florida
Employment:
Coca-Cola bottling in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
live in a 15,000 square foot gallery home with one bedroom
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
45. Art Collector:
Dimitris Daskalopoulos
Location:
Athens
Employment:
Financial services and investment company (Damma Holdings SA)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially large-scale installations; sculpture, drawings, collage, film, and video
46. Art Collector:
Helene and Michel Alexandre David-Weill
Location:
Paris and Cap d'Antibes, France; New York
Employment:
Banking
Art Collection:
collects 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century French painting
47. Art Collector:
Philippe Decelle
Location:
Brussels
Employment:
Construction
Art Collection:
Plastic design, especially Pop furniture made between 1960 and 1973
48. Art Collector:
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Location:
New York and Southampton, New York; West Palm Beach, Florida
Employment:
Real estate
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
49. Art Collector:
Ulla Dreyfus-Best
Location:
Binningen and Gstaad, Switzerland
Employment:
Inheritance
Art Collection:
Old Master painting and drawings; Mannerism; Symbolism; Surrealism; contemporary art
50. Art Collector:
Glenn Dubin
Location:
New York
Employment:
Asset Management
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
51. Art Collector:
Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson
Location:
Chicago; Aspen, Colorado
Employment:
Plastics manufacturing (retired)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
52. Art Collector:
Agnes and Karlheinz Essl
Location:
Vienna and Klosterneuburg, Austria
Employment:
Retail (bauMax)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially Austrian painting
53. Art Collector:
Harald Falckenberg
Location:
Hamburg, Germany
Employment:
Law practice and oil equipment
Art Collection:
Contemporary German and American art
54. Art Collector:
Frank J. Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta
Location:
Las Vegas
Employment:
Casinos (Station Casinos) and professional fighting (Ultimate Fighting Championship)
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
55. Art Collector:
Daniel Filipacchi
Location:
Paris; New York
Employment:
Publishing
Art Collection:
Modern art, especially Surrealism
56. Art Collector:
Aaron I. Fleischman
Location:
Miami Beach
Employment:
Law and investments
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
57. Art Collector:
Friedrich Flick
Location:
German-born Swiss-resident
Employment:
Friedrich Flick KGaA, the industrial empire, Daimler Benz, W.R. Grace and Gerling Konzern.
Art Collection:
collects Old Masters; Modern and Contemporary Art, with a focus on European sculptures
58. Art Collector:
Anna and Josef Froehlich
Location:
Stuttgart, Germany
Employment:
Automobile industry
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially German and American
59. Art Collector:
Amanda and Glenn R. Fuhrman
Location:
New York
Employment:
Investments (MSD Capital)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
60. Art Collector:
Soichiro Fukutake
Location:
Okayama, Japan
Employment:
Publishing
Art Collection:
Impressionism; contemporary art
61. Art Collector:
Orrin And Karen Gabsch
Location:
La Jolla, CA
Employment:
collecting for 20 years
Art Collection:
collects western and Indian art, landscapes, wildlifes, and still lifes, bronzes, Native American pottery, and kachinas.
62. Art Collector:
Antoine de Galbert
Location:
Paris
Employment:
Inheritance
Art Collection:
Primitive art; contemporary art
63. Art Collector:
Danielle and David Ganek
Location:
New York
Employment:
Hedge fund
Art Collection:
Contemporary art and photography
64. Art Collector:
Garza Sada family
Location:
Monterrey, Mexico
Employment:
petrochemicals, aluminum auto parts, refrigerated foods, telecommunications
Art Collection:
Contemporary art; 20th-century Mexican art
65. Art Collector:
David Geffen
Location:
Hollywood mogul
Employment:
proved astute buyer/seller of art
Art Collection:
$1 billion art collection
66. Art Collector:
Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis
Location:
Regensburg, Germany
Employment:
Inheritance and investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
67. Art Collector:
Ingvild Goetz
Location:
Munich
Employment:
Inheritance
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
68. Art Collector:
Carol and Arthur Goldberg
Location:
New York
Employment:
Investment banking (retired)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
69. Art Collector:
Noam Gottesman
Location:
New York
Employment:
Hedge fund
Art Collection:
Postwar and contemporary art
70. Art Collector:
Laurence Graff
Location:
Gstaad, Switzerland
Employment:
Jewelry
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
71. Art Collector:
Esther Grether
Location:
Basel, Switzerland
Employment:
Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics distribution
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
72. Art Collector:
Anne and Kenneth C. Griffin
Location:
Chicago
Employment:
Hedge fund
Art Collection:
Impressionism; Post-Impressionism
73. Art Collector:
Agnes Gund
Location:
New York; Peninsula, Ohio; Kent, Connecticut
Employment:
Inheritance
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
74. Art Collector:
Nathalie and Charles de Gunzburg
Location:
New York
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Postwar and contemporary art
75. Art Collector:
Francesca von Habsburg
Location:
Vienna
Employment:
Inheritance
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
76. Art Collector:
Mania and Bernhard Hahnloser
Location:
Bern, Switzerland
Employment:
Inheritance, government
Art Collection:
Post-Impressionism; Surrealism; contemporary art
77. Art Collector:
Margrit and Paul Hahnloser
Location:
Zurich
Employment:
Inheritance, surgeon
Art Collection:
Post-Impressionism; contemporary art
78. Art Collector:
Christine and Andrew Hall
Location:
Westport, Connecticut
Employment:
Commodities trading
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially German
79. Art Collector:
Diane and Bruce Halle
Location:
Arizona; Colorado
Employment:
Tires (discount tire company)
Art Collection:
Latin American art; contemporary sculpture
80. Art Collector:
Princess Marie and Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein
Location:
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Employment:
Inheritance
Art Collection:
Old Masters
81. Art Collector:
Elizabeth and Richard Hedreen
Location:
Seattle
Employment:
Real estate
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
82. Art Collector:
Ydessa Hendeles
Location:
Toronto
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art; photography
83. Art Collector:
Annick and Anton Herbert
Location:
Ghent, Belgium
Employment:
Textile machinery
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially Conceptual, Minimalism, arte povera, and 1980s
84. Art Collector:
Donald Hess
Location:
Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland
Employment:
Vineyards and properties
Art Collection:
International contemporary art
85. Art Collector:
Marieluise Hessel
Location:
Jackson, Wyoming
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
86. Art Collector:
Janine and J. Tomilson Hill
Location:
New York
Employment:
Investment banking
Art Collection:
Postwar American and European art; Renaissance bronzes
87. Art Collector:
Damien Hirst
Location:
London and Devon, England; Mexico
Employment:
Artist
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
88. Art Collector:
Marguerite Hoffman
Location:
Dallas
Employment:
Soft-drink bottling
Art Collection:
Contemporary, postwar American, and European art; Chinese monochrome
89. Art Collector:
Erika Hoffmann
Location:
Berlin
Employment:
Fashion and real estate
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
90. Art Collector:
Tuffy And Shirley Holland
Location:
Greeley, CO
Employment:
has acquired over 300 pieces since the 1970's
Art Collection:
collects historical western art and landscapes of the West
91. Art Collector:
Susan and Michael Hort
Location:
New York; New Jersey
Employment:
Printing
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
92. Art Collector:
Frank Huang
Location:
Taipei, Taiwan
Employment:
Computer hardware
Art Collection:
Chinese porcelain; Impressionist and modern painting
93. Art Collector:
Dakis Joannou
Location:
Athens
Employment:
Construction
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
94. Art Collector:
Joyce And Roland Jones
Location:
Clifton, TX
Employment:
Art Collection:
collects contemporary western painting and sculptures.
95. Art Collector:
Ingrid and Hugo Jung
Location:
Aachen, Germany
Employment:
Medical practice (retired)
Art Collection:
Postwar and contemporary art
96. Art Collector:
Pauline Karpidas
Location:
Employment:
A British socialite, married to a Greek tycoon
Art Collection:
Her collection includes surrealism, modern art and cutting-edge art.
97. Art Collector:
Nasser David Khalili
Location:
London
Employment:
Real estate and investments
Art Collection:
Islamic art; Japanese art of the Meiji period; Swedish textiles; Spanish metalwork; enamels of the world
98. Art Collector:
Kim Chang-Il
Location:
Cheonan, South Korea
Employment:
Property development, retail, and transportation
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
99. Art Collector:
Suna and Inan Kirac
Location:
Istanbul
Employment:
Industry (Koc Holding, Kiraca Holding)
Art Collection:
Orientalist painting; Anatolian weights and measures; Kutahya tiles and ceramics
100. Art Collector:
Jeanne and Michael L. Klein
Location:
Austin, Texas; Santa Fe
Employment:
Oil and gas exploration and production
Art Collection:
Postwar and contemporary art
101. Art Collector:
Uli Knecht
Location:
Stuttgart, Germany
Employment:
Fashion design and retail
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially Pop and German art
102. Art Collector:
Alicia Koplowitz
Location:
Madrid
Employment:
Real estate and investments
Art Collection:
Old Masters; modern art
103. Art Collector:
Pamela and Richard Kramlich
Location:
San Francisco
Employment:
Venture capital
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially video and film
104. Art Collector:
Jill and Peter Kraus
Location:
New York and Dutchess County, New York
Employment:
Investment management
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
105. Art Collector:
Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis
Location:
New York; Vail, Colorado
Employment:
Finance and investments
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art; French furniture
106. Art Collector:
Catherine and Pierre Lagrange
Location:
London
Employment:
Hedge fund
Art Collection:
Postwar and contemporary art
107. Art Collector:
Barbara and Jon Landau
Location:
New York
Employment:
Entertainment
Art Collection:
Renaissance painting and sculpture; 19th-century French and English painting
108. Art Collector:
Emily Fisher Landau
Location:
New York; Palm Beach, Florida
Employment:
Real estate
Art Collection:
Contemporary American art
109. Art Collector:
Joseph Lau
Location:
Hong Kong
Employment:
Real estate
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art, especially Warhol
110. Art Collector:
Evelyn and Leonard Lauder
Location:
New York; Aspen, Colorado; Palm Beach, Florida
Employment:
Cosmetics (the Estee Lauder companies inc.)
Art Collection:
Modern art, especially Cubism
111. Art Collector:
Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Location:
New York and Wainscott, New York; Washington, D.C.; Palm Beach, Florida; Paris
Employment:
Cosmetics (the Estee Lauder companies inc.)
Art Collection:
Late-19th- and early- 20th-century art, especially German and Austrian; decorative art; medieval art; arms and armor
112. Art Collector:
Barbara Lee
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art by women
113. Art Collector:
Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum
Location:
New York and East Hampton, New York; Lincoln, Massachusetts; Palm Beach, Florida
Employment:
Investment banking
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art; photography
114. Art Collector:
Liz and Eric Lefkofsky
Location:
Glencoe, Illinois
Employment:
Venture investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
115. Art Collector:
Joe Lewis
Location:
Nassau, the Bahamas
Employment:
Finance, investments, and currency trading
Art Collection:
Modern art
116. Art Collector:
Mimi and Filiep Libeert
Location:
Kortrijk, Belgium
Employment:
Textiles
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
117. Art Collector:
Adam Lindemann and Amalia Dayan
Location:
New York
Employment:
Private investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art; African art; 20th-century design
118. Art Collector:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Location:
London and Berkshire, England
Employment:
Entertainment
Art Collection:
18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century British and American painting, especially Pre-Raphaelite; German Expressionism
119. Art Collector:
Margaret Munzer Loeb and Daniel S. Loeb
Location:
New York and East Hampton, New York
Employment:
Hedge fund
Art Collection:
Postwar and contemporary art; feminist art
120. Art Collector:
Eugenio Lopez Alonso
Location:
Mexico City; Los Angeles
Employment:
Beverages (Jumex)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
121. Art Collector:
Paula and Peter H. Lunder
Location:
Florida
Employment:
Fashion
Art Collection:
American Impressionism; modernism; 19th-century and Western art
122. Art Collector:
Ninah and Michael Lynne
Location:
New York
Employment:
Film production (unique features)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
123. Art Collector:
Susan and John Magnier
Location:
County Tipperary, Ireland; Geneva; Marbella, Spain; Barbados
Employment:
Horse breeding and investments
Art Collection:
18th-century British painting; 20th-century Irish art; equestrian art; modern art
124. Art Collector:
Nancy and Robert Magoon
Location:
Aspen, Colorado
Employment:
Medical practice and real estate
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
125. Art Collector:
Allan Majotra
Location:
Californian investment banker
Employment:
collects non-Western contemporary art, in Spain.
Art Collection:
His non-conventional collection emphasizes famous and emerging Asian and African contemporary artists. He also collects outsider art, including works by contemporary non-traditional artists, such as architects and designers.
126. Art Collector:
Sherry and Joel Mallin
Location:
New York and Pound Ridge, New York
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art, especially sculpture
127. Art Collector:
Martin Z. Margulies
Location:
Key Biscayne, Florida
Employment:
Real estate development
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art; photography and video
128. Art Collector:
Anne and John Marion
Location:
Fort Worth; Santa Fe; Palm Springs, California; Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Employment:
Oil (Burnett Oil Company) and ranches (Burnett Ranches)
Art Collection:
17th- and 18th-century European art; modern and contemporary art; Taos art
129. Art Collector:
Donald B. Marron
Location:
private equity, collects modern and contemporary art
Employment:
founder of $3 billion private equity firm Lightyear Capital
Art Collection:
New York office covered with abstract art
130. Art Collector:
David Martinez
Location:
Mexico born, founder of Fintech Advisory
Employment:
resides in London
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art
131. Art Collector:
Dinos Martinos
Location:
Employment:
Greek shipping mogul
Art Collection:
collects antiques, modern and contemporary art, and icons
132. Art Collector:
Susan and Larry Marx
Location:
Aspen, Colorado
Marina del Rey, California
Employment:
Investments and Real Estate
Art Collection:
collect postwar and contemporary art, abstract expressionism and works on paper
133. Art Collector:
Frances G and James W McGlothlin
Location:
Austin, Texas
Naples, Florida
Bristol, Virginia
Employment:
Financial services, oil and gas, industrial-supply distribution, gold courses
Art Collection:
collects 19th-20th century American art, expecially American expressionism
134. Art Collector:
Henry S McNeil
Location:
Philadelphia
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art, especially minimalism
135. Art Collector:
Gabrielle and Werner Merzbacher
Location:
Zurich
Employment:
fur trading and finance
Art Collection:
collects 20th century art, especially Fauvism and German Expressionism
136. Art Collector:
Julie and Edward J Minskoff
Location:
New York
Employment:
Real Estate
Art Collection:
collects post-war, pop, and contemporary American and European art
137. Art Collector:
Peter Moores
Location:
London and Wigan, England
Employment:
soccer pools and mail-order business
Art Collection:
collects 15th-20th century European art, archaic Chinese bronzes, contemporary British art.
138. Art Collector:
Minoru Mori
Location:
Employment:
President and CEO of the Mori Building Company.
Art Collection:
one of the leading collections of Western and Japanese contemporary art and is the basis of the Mori Art Center, which will house his personal collection. Located in Tokyo, the foundation is connected with MOMA to bring the best in western contemporary art to Japan.
139. Art Collector:
Hubert Neuman
Location:
New York
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
collect contemporary art, especially young artists
140. Art Collector:
Victoria and Samuel I. Newhouse Jr.
Location:
New York
Employment:
publishing
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art
141. Art Collector:
Tim Newton
Location:
Long Island, NY
Employment:
Art Collection:
collects paintings, sculptures, and drawings, western landscapes, wildlife still lifes, and maritime paintings.
142. Art Collector:
Philip S Niarchos
Location:
Paris, France
London, England
Saint Moritz, Switzerland
Employment:
shipping and finance
Art Collection:
collects old masters, impressionism, modern and contemporary art
143. Art Collector:
Peter Norton
Location:
Santa Monica, California
New York
Employment:
computer software
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
144. Art Collector:
Maja Oeri and Hans U. Bodenmann
Location:
Basel, Switzerland
Employment:
inheritance (pharmaceuticals)
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
owns Steve McQueen's 2009 film Giardi
145. Art Collector:
Thomas Olbricht
Location:
Essen, Germany
Employment:
inheritance (beauty products) and medical practice
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art
146. Art Collector:
George Ortiz
Location:
Vandoeuvres, Switzerland
Paris, France
Employment:
investments
Art Collection:
collect antiquities, tribal art, 15th century italian art, 18th century European art
147. Art Collector:
Judy and Michael Ovitz
Location:
Los Angeles, California
Employment:
entertainment
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art, Ming furniture, modern paintings, African art
owns an early 20th century Abua water spirit mask from Nigeria
148. Art Collector:
Duffy And Tina Oyster
Location:
Dallas, TX
Employment:
Art Collection:
they have owned over 800 pieces in the past 10 years, currently own 300 paintings
collects from deceased artists: western art and the Taos Founders
149. Art Collector:
Giovanna and Giuseppe Panza di Biumo
Location:
Milan, Italy
Massagno, Switzerland
Employment:
Real estate
Art Collection:
collects postwar and contemporary art
150. Art Collector:
Mary and John Pappajohn
Location:
Des Moines, Iowa
New York
Employment:
venture capital
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art
151. Art Collector:
Bernardo Paz
Location:
Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Employment:
mining
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
152. Art Collector:
Masha and Jeffrey Perelman
Location:
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
Employment:
heating equipment
Art Collection:
collects postwar and contemporary art
153. Art Collector:
Amy and John Phelman
Location:
New York
Aspen, Colorado
Employment:
investments (MSD capital)
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
154. Art Collector:
Francois Pinault
Location:
Paris, France
Employment:
Luxury goods (PPR) and Christie's Auction
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
155. Art Collector:
Victor Pinchuk
Location:
Kiev Ukraine
Employment:
Investment advisory group (Easton Group)
founder of PinchukArtCentre in Ukraine
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
156. Art Collector:
Ron Pizzuti
Location:
Columbus, Ohio
Orlando, Florida
New York
Employment:
Real Estate (the Pizzuti Companies)
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art and design
157. Art Collector:
Elizabeth and Harvey Plotnick
Location:
Chicago, Illinois
Employment:
publishing and investments
Art Collection:
collects old master prints and Islamic ceramics
158. Art Collector:
Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli
Location:
Milan, Italy
Employment:
fashion
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
159. Art Collector:
Veronique and Louis-Antoine Prat
Location:
Paris, France
Employment:
manufacturing inheritance
Art Collection:
collects 17th and 18th century French drawings
own A Satry Lifting d Drapery by Francois Boucher
160. Art Collector:
Lisa S. and John A. Pritzker
Location:
San Francisco, California
Employment:
hotels and investments
Art Collection:
collects photography
161. Art Collector:
Penny Pritzker
Location:
Chicago, Illinois
Employment:
real estate, Hyatt hotels, and financial information
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
162. Art Collector:
Emily Pulitzer
Location:
Saint Louis, Missouri
Employment:
media inheritance
Art Collection:
collects cubism, post-impressionism and abstract impressionism
163. Art Collector:
Cindy and Howard Rachofsky
Location:
Dallas, Texas
Employment:
investments
The Rachofsky House, their private home and contemporary art collection aiming to offer a unique experience with contemporary art and architecture through Richard Meier's building
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
164. Art Collector:
Mitchell Rales
Location:
Potomac, Maryland
New York
Employment:
tool industry
His Glenstone Museum houses his collection of modern and contemporary masterworks sitting on 125 acres with landscaped lawns, meadows and woods in Potomac, Maryland
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art
165. Art Collector:
Steven Rales
Location:
Washington D.C.
Employment:
tool industry
Art Collection:
collects impressioniam, modern and contemporary art
166. Art Collector:
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Location:
Turin, Italy
Employment:
industrial manufacturing
Set up the Italian contemporary art foundation Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin in 1995 to encourage a greater understanding of contemporary art and of today’s leading trends at an international level
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
167. Art Collector:
Louis and Leonard Riggio
Location:
New York and Bridgehampton, New York
Employment:
Barnes and Noble retail
The benefactor of many community organizations and charities including New York University and the Dia Beacon art museum in Beacon, New York. He also established Project Home Again to assist resident of New Orleans.
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art
168. Art Collector:
Ellen and Michael Ringier
Location:
Zurich
Employment:
publishing
Art Collection:
collects contemporary art, and Russian avante-garde art
169. Art Collector:
Shannon Robinson
Location:
Evergreen, Colorado
Employment:
Art Collection:
collects oil painting and scultpure, representational and abstract since 1983
has acquire over 200 works of art from living artists to support the vocation
170. Art Collector:
Sharon and Jay Rockefeller
Location:
Washington D.C.
Employment:
Inheritance
Art Collection:
collects 19th-20th century American art, especially American impressionism, modern and contemporary American art
171. Art Collector:
Inge Rodenstock
Location:
Grunewald, Germany
Employment:
inheritance
Art Collection:
collects German, American and British contemporary art
172. Art Collector:
Deedie and Rusty Rose
Location:
Dallas, Texas
Employment:
investments
Donated $5 million dollars, $2 million of which will be used to establish the Dallas CityDesign Studio to expand the city’s design efforts for planning and development
Art Collection:
collects German, American, and South American contemporary art
173. Art Collector:
Aby J. Rosen
Location:
New York and Southhampton, New York
Employment:
Real estate, founder of Cardinal Investment Company and onetime Texas Rangers co-owner
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art, contemporary photography
174. Art Collector:
Eric de Rothschild
Location:
Paris and Pauillac, France
Employment:
Banking
Art Collection:
Old Masters; modern and contemporary art
175. Art Collector:
Mera and Donald Rubell
Location:
Miami; New York; Washington
Employment:
Medical practice (retired), education, real estate, and hotels; own public contemporary-art foundation The warehouse collection in Miami, contains 1,500 pieces by artists including Keith Haring, Peter Halley, Damien Hirst, David Salle and Cindy Sherman, as well as locals such as 62-year-old African-American folk artist Purvis Young, a representation of every major influence in contemporary art over the last three decades.
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
176. Art Collector:
Betty and Isaac Rudman
Location:
Dominican Republic
Employment:
Imports and manufacturing (home appliances)
Art Collection:
Latin American art; numismatics; pre-Columbian art, rare coins
177. Art Collector:
Charles Saatchi
Location:
London
Employment:
Advertising
Owner of the Saatchi Gallery, and sponsor of the Young British Artists. In 1969, at twenty-six Saatchi purchased his first work of art by Sol LeWitt. In 2009, he published the book My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic.
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially British
178. Art Collector:
Lily Safra
Location:
London
Employment:
Inheritance
Art Collection:
founded the International Sephardic Education Foundation in 1977 and Chairs The Edmond J. Safra Foundation. She is on the board of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research and a member of the Chairman's Council of the Museum of Modern Art. Sotheby's announced that an auction of Mr. and Mrs. Safra's collections, including furniture, artwork, silverware and decorative objects, will take place in October 2011 in New York City
19th- and 20th-century art
179. Art Collector:
Sainsbury family
Location:
London
Employment:
Supermarkets
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Art Collection:
Impressionism; modern and contemporary art
180. Art Collector:
Ida and Piet Sanders
Location:
Schiedam, the Netherlands
Employment:
Law practice (retired)
Frequently donate large portions of their collection to Dutch modern art museums. Piet Sanders is interested in architectural models often donating models and other things he has purchased to the NAI. Sanders regularly offers items from his collection to supplement the NAI's own strategic acquisitions
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art, especially sculpture; African art
181. Art Collector:
Jeannette and Martijn Sanders
Location:
Aerdenhout, the Netherlands
Employment:
Orchestra management (Concertgebouw
Art Collection:
Post-1980s American and European art
182. Art Collector:
Marieke and Pieter Sanders Jr
Location:
Aerdenhout, the Netherlands
Employment:
Corporate law practice
Art Collection:
Dutch art; sculpture; contemporary American and European art
183. Art Collector:
Fayez Sarofim
Location:
Houston
Employment:
Investment counseling
Coptic Egyptian American fund manager, contributor to the Houston Ballet
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art; Coptic art; 19th-century American art; Old Masters
184. Art Collector:
Louisa Stude Sarofim
Location:
Houston; Santa Fe
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art and works on paper
185. Art Collector:
Tatsumi Sato
Location:
Hiroshima, Japan
Employment:
Manufacturing (radiators)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art; primitive art; antique textiles
186. Art Collector:
Denise and Andrew M. Saul
Location:
New York and Katonah, New York
Employment:
Retail and investments, restored Cache Inc.
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art, especially postwar American; Chinese bronzes
187. Art Collector:
Ute and Rudolf Scharpff
Location:
Stuttgart, Germany
Employment:
Management
collecting for over fifty years; concentrated on the Nouveaux Realistes in the 1960s. Today their collection included art by the Zero Group, works by Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Franz Ackermann, Andre Butzer, Albert Oehlen, Neo Rauch, Christopher Wool, and Jeff Koons. They are also interested in young artists whose works deal critically with the present.
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially American and German
188. Art Collector:
Stephan Schmidheiny
Location:
Swiss
Employment:
investor and environmentalist, blue-chip equities.
His art collection is estimated to be worth in excess of half a billion dollars.
Art Collection:
collects Contemporary Art and Abstract Expressionism, including artists such as Marden, Ryman, and Twombly.
189. Art Collector:
Carol Schmitz
Location:
Santa Barbara, CA
Employment:
owns over 35 pieces since starting her collection 5 years ago
Art Collection:
collects landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, and figurative art.
190. Art Collector:
Chara Schreyer
Location:
Employment:
Member of the board of trustees at SFMOMA
Her collection is rated one of the top 10 private collections in the world of modern art
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art and photography
191. Art Collector:
Helen and Charles Schwab
Location:
San Francisco and Atherton, California
Employment:
Investment firm
Gifted a pair of Jackson Pollocks: the 1948 Square Pouring and 1951 Black and White (Number 6) Francis Bacon’s 1963 Figure with Two Owls and David Smith’s 1962 Voltri XII to the SFMOMA
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
192. Art Collector:
Marianne and Alan Schwartz
Location:
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Employment:
Law practice
for over 50 years has donated time, money and works of art to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Art Collection:
Old Masters; modern prints
193. Art Collector:
Lenore and Adam Sender
Location:
Miami; New York
Employment:
Financial services, founder of Exis Capital Management
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
194. Art Collector:
Randel and Dana Shadid
Location:
Edmond, Oklahoma
Employment:
attorney
Art Collection:
Opened Shadid Fine Art in 2003 to showcase their private collection
195. Art Collector:
Mary and Jon Shirley
Location:
Medina, Washington; Kapalua, Hawaii
Employment:
Computer software (Microsoft)
Art Collection:
collects modern and contemporary art in addition to collecting, restoring, showing and racing vintage Ferraris
196. Art Collector:
Uli Sigg
Location:
Mauensee, Switzerland Media (Ringier Group)
Employment:
Art Collection:
2,100 works by 350 artists, collected over more than 30 years, visiting more than 1,500 studios. Owns the largest collection of contemporary Chinese art in the world.
Contemporary art, especially Chinese
197. Art Collector:
Peter Simon
Location:
London
Employment:
Retail (Monsoon)
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
198. Art Collector:
Carlos Slim Helu
Location:
Mexico City
Employment:
Telecommunications, finance, and retail
Art Collection:
Old Masters; pre-Columbian and colonial Mexican art; modern art, especially Rodin
Working on new project to open a museum in Mexico
199. Art Collector:
Eric Smidt
Location:
Los Angeles
Employment:
Chairman, CEO of Harbor Freight Tools. Invests in real estate, including the former Marvin Davis estate
Art Collection:
New York School; contemporary art
200. Art Collector:
Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley
Location:
New York
Employment:
Real estate
chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, and chair emeritus of the influential Partnership for New York City, founded by David Rockefeller.
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
201. Art Collector:
Blema and Arnold Steinberg
Location:
Montreal; New York
Employment:
Education (chancellor of McGill University)
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art; Chinese antiquities
202. Art Collector:
Judy and Michael H. Steinhardt
Location:
New York and Mount Kisco, New York
Employment:
Investment firm, philanthropist active in Jewish causes. He was one of the first prominent hedge fund managers, and is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He founded Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz & Co.
Art Collection:
Classical antiquities; modern art, especially drawings; Judaica; Peruvian feathered textiles
203. Art Collector:
Gayle and Paul Stoffel
Location:
Dallas; Palm Springs, California; Aspen, Colorado
Employment:
Investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
204. Art Collector:
Norah and Norman Stone
Location:
San Francisco and Napa Valley, California
Employment:
Psychology, law practice, and private investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
205. Art Collector:
Iris and Matthew Strauss
Location:
Rancho Sante Fe, California
Employment:
Private real-estate investments (M.C. Strauss Company)
chairs the Public Art Committee and the Public Art Master Plan Committee
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
206. Art Collector:
Jay And Mary Linda Strotkamp
Location:
Laguna Beach, CA
Employment:
acquired over 150 works
Art Collection:
collect contemporary representational paintings with a focus on American plein-air artists and bronze sculptures.
207. Art Collector:
Lisa and Steve Tananbaum
Location:
Westchester, New York; Palm Beach, Florida
Employment:
Asset management
Art Collection:
Postwar and contemporary art
208. Art Collector:
Toby and Joey Tanenbaum
Location:
Toronto; Naples, Florida
Employment:
Real estate and hydroelectric power
Art Collection:
African art; naive art; Mayan art
209. Art Collector:
Richard And Carole Tapper
Location:
Romeo, MI
Employment:
Art Collection:
collects mostly bronzes and oil paintings, although we have several other forms of art
210. Art Collector:
Benedikt Taschen
Location:
Cologne, Germany
Employment:
Publishing
Art Collection:
Contemporary art, especially American, German, and British
211. Art Collector:
Sheikh Saud bin Mohammad bin Ali al-Thani
Location:
Doha, Qatar; London
Employment:
Real estate and investments
Art Collection:
Antiquities; Old Masters; Islamic art; contemporary art; natural history; minerals; architecture
212. Art Collector:
David Thomson
Location:
Toronto
Employment:
Media
taught film studies at Dartmouth College,
regular contributor to The New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic and Salon.
served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival and scripted an award-winning documentary, The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind.
Art Collection:
Masters; modern and contemporary art
213. Art Collector:
Kenneth Thomson
Location:
Employment:
Canadian media, Thomson Financial
Art Collection:
collects Renaissance jewellery, European sculpture and portrait miniatures from 13th to 16th centuries.
214. Art Collector:
Robbi and Bruce E. Toll
Location:
Rydal, Pennsylvania
Employment:
Luxury homes (Toll Brothers Inc.)
Art Collection:
Elizabethan and Jacobean painting; Impressionism; Post-Impressionism; 20th-century sculpture
215. Art Collector:
Ruth and William True
Location:
Seattle
Employment:
Real estate and investments
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
216. Art Collector:
Myriam and Guy Ullens
Location:
Verbier, Switzerland; Ohain, Belgium
Employment:
Industry, including refined sugar
Art Collection:
Contemporary Chinese art
217. Art Collector:
Dean Valentine
Location:
Beverly Hills, California
Employment:
Media entrepreneur
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
218. Art Collector:
Walter Vanhaerents
Location:
Brussels
Employment:
Real estate and construction
Art Collection:
Contemporary art
219. Art Collector:
Edith and Mark Vanmoerkerke
Location:
Oostende, Belgium
Employment:
Private equity, real estate
Art Collection:
Post-conceptual European and American art
220. Art Collector:
Jose Luis Varez Fisa
Location:
Madrid
Employment:
Industry
Art Collection:
Antiquities; Old Masters; modern and contemporary Spanish art
221. Art Collector:
Barbara and John Vogelstein
Location:
New York
Employment:
Private equity
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
222. Art Collector:
Alice Walton
Location:
Fort Worth
Employment:
Inheritance (Wal-Mart)
Art Collection:
American Art
223. Art Collector:
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Location:
Employment:
British composer of: Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and Les Miserables
"I write music to buy art"
Art Collection:
collects Victorian, Old Masters and others by Burne-Jones, Canaletto, Hunt, Tissot, Rosseti, Waterhouse, and Picasso
224. Art Collector:
Alain Wertheimer
Location:
Paris; New York
Employment:
Luxury goods (Chanel)
own French vineyards Rauzan-Segla in Margaux, France and Chateau Canon in Saint-Emilion. Inherited and operate a Thoroughbred horse racing stable, La Presle Farm or Wertheimer farm for racing in the United States and is known as Wertheimer et Frere partnership in France.
Art Collection:
Modern art
225. Art Collector:
Abigail and Leslie H. Wexner
Location:
Columbus, Ohio
Employment:
Ohio State law drop out, started a women's sportswear store in 1963, took Limited Brands public, established Wexner Foundation in 1984 and the Wexner Center for the Arts in 1989
Art Collection:
Collection includes: Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Koonings. Modern and contemporary art; British sporting pictures
collection worth:$700 million
226. Art Collector:
Reba and Dave Williams
Location:
Employment:
Art Collection:
The Williams' collection fills the National Gallery's holdings, including impression of Winslow Homer's The Signal of Distress, (1891); Childe Hassam's greatest print, The Lion Gardiner House, Easthampton (1920); important linocuts by Hale Woodruff; Paul Cadmus' inimitable Shore Leave (1935); Charles W. White's moving We Have Been Believers (1949); Charles Burchfield's haunting Autumn Wind (1952); Lee Krasner's dynamic abstract lithographs; and Jim Dine's outstanding Five Paintbrushes (1973).
227. Art Collector:
Charles And Jeanette White
Location:
Barrington, IL
Employment:
Art Collection:
collects contemporary southwestern
228. Art Collector:
Jack And Martha Wolff
Location:
Scottsdale, AZ
Employment:
Art Collection:
collects representational paintings, landscapes, still life, florals, and animals, and bronze sculptures.
229. Art Collector:
Reinhold Wurth
Location:
Niedernhall, Germany; Salzburg, Austria
Employment:
Trade
Art Collection:
Medieval, postwar, and contemporary art
230. Art Collector:
Stephen A. Wynn
Location:
Las Vegas, Nevada
Employment:
Casino resorts
graduated from Penn with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature.
Art Collection:
French Impressionism; modern and contemporary art
231. Art Collector:
Tadashi Yanai
Location:
Yamaguchi City, Japan
Employment:
Fashion retailing (Uniqlo)
Art Collection:
Modern and contemporary art
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