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The Orange Balloon Dog

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by Don Thompson

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

  J. Paul Getty Museum (the Getty), 104, 180, 189

  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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