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Category: Auction house Category: Gallerist
Nationality: Swiss Nationality: American
Last Year: 34 Last Year: 24
Simon de Pury’s office at Phillips gusto than its more established Barbara Gladstone opened her first the artist and musician Arto Lindsay.
de Pury & Company in New York rivals Sotheby’s and Christie’s. The gallery space in SoHo, New York, in Gladstone is considered something
features a long ripple of steel, collectors on its advisory board are 1979 and has since represented some of a trailblazer when it comes to the
which peels down from the ceiling, the bold-face type – such as Aby of the most popular artists from both financing of art films: she sells stills
turns and touches the wall, and Rosen and Francesca von Habsburg sides of the Atlantic. She decamped from Barney’s film series (one of
then swerves into the middle of the – and the board also counts among to a space in Chelsea in 1996, and her which went for $348,000 at Christie’s
room to function as desk, bookshelf its members taste-defining figures current stable includes prominent, this year) to offset production costs
and bench. The dramatic sculpture such as Marc Jacobs, Malcolm retrospective-worthy artists such as of future projects, now common
is designed by Vito Acconci, and McLaren and Juergen Teller. As Anish Kapoor, Alighiero e Boetti practice with gallerists hoping to
there is no better way to signal de activity at auction becomes more and Richard Prince (who is indeed finance similarly big-budget affairs.
Pury’s commitment to the young important, with his downtown New currently getting the retrospective
and new than this tour de force of York digs and new London site, treatment at the Guggenheim). She
twenty-first-century design. The de Pury is well poised to attract a also represents Matthew Barney,
auction house Phillips de Pury, number of auction initiates. whose work is currently on view at
which was formed in 2001 with the the Serpentine Gallery in London
merger of de Pury & Luxembourg and whose Drawing Restraint 9 was
with Phillips Auctioneers (de Pury recently released as a full-length
later bought out partner Daniella feature. Gladstone produced all of
Luxembourg’s shares), has been Barney’s films, including his most
concentrating on young artists recent, De Lama Lamina (2007), the
and young collectors with more record of a collaboration between
Dealers Robert Mnuchin and fetched $26.9 million at Christie’s, At seventy-nine, with a long- ‘starchitect’ has never been one
Dominique Levy look an odd couple but more often their names appear established and globally recognisable to sit back. During the past year
(they are both otherwise attached), as buyers. The biggest news this year signature crumpled-ball-of-metal he’s seen the unveiling of his first
but the magic works: in the past two may be that L&M are positioning style of architecture, and with the building in New York, collaborated
years, their elegant Upper East Side themselves in a new market: last iconic Guggenheim Bilbao ten years on an exhibition with longtime friend
townhouse gallery, L&M Arts, has June they held an exhibition of the behind him, you’d think that there Sophie Calle and launched his plans
hosted a mere seven exhibitions, young British artist Richard Wathen, wouldn’t be much left for Frank for the latest $200-million branch of
giving meaning to the expression and they have recently partnered Gehry to do. He’s already changed the Guggenheim franchise in Abu
‘quality not quantity’. These included with dealer Gavin Brown to open his name (from Goldberg), driven Dhabi. Meanwhile, work continues
a show of Warhol Maos; one of early a gallery in LA. Strategic alliance a delivery truck, served in the US on Bernard Arnault’s Louis Vuitton
Minimalism; and an appearance by or backdoor takeover, the deal Army, made a guest appearance Foundation for Creation, due to
the slippery David Hammons, who offers Mnuchin and Levy a crack in an episode of The Simpsons, open by 2010 and located in Paris’s
installed six singed and defaced at building the careers of potential designed a line of jewellery for Bois de Boulogne, which Gehry
fur coats. Collectors and museums cash cows. Tiffany’s, been the subject of a claims will ‘symbolise France’s
work for years to find this kind of feature film, hung out with Brad devotion to culture’. Just as much,
material. Pitt and launched a software presumably, as it symbolises the
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generate action in the saleroom. that architects around the world can devotion to Gehry.
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