Larry Gagosian

“Directors can make 10% of the gallery's profit on a sale.”

“With 19 galleries that bear his name, from New York to London to Athens to Hong Kong, generating more than a billion dollars in annual revenue, Gagosian may well be the biggest art dealer in the history of the world. The business, which he owns without a partn…”

“Things like mansions, yachts, private jets. These can be assets”

“Incredibly, between 2004 and 2008, Russian buyers were responsible for almost half of Gagosian's business worldwide.”

“Gagosian had secured a commission rate of about 30%, so he'd throw these shows for Twombly in his gallery. He winds up selling 10 paintings in a night, and he would make fifteen million dollars a night.”

“He inverted this thing where normally the art dealers were trying to emulate their clients. Larry's clients are trying to emulate him.”

“For people like Gagosian and for people like Anna Wintour, those are just marketing And sales showcases in disguise. They are working when they're doing that.”

“Genius has the fewest moving parts. Joseph Duveen becomes fabulously wealthy, builds an incredible life and business off of that simple idea. His business had very few moving parts. It's like, hey, I'm going to buy all this hard to find art in Europe. And I'm …”

“Larry Gagosian, who starts his career, you know, 40 years after Joseph Devine dies, by his own admission, reads every single biography that he could get his hands on about Joseph Devine, and essentially patterns his career.”