18 Facts About Gagosian Gallery

In 1986, Gagosian Gallery opened a second space on West 23rd Street in Manhattan.

Gagosian Gallery opened a location in Beverly Hills designed by architect Richard Meier in 1995.

In 1999, Gagosian Gallery moved from SoHo to West 24th Street, in New York's industrial Chelsea.

In spring of 2000, Gagosian became an international gallery with the opening in London of a Caruso St John-designed space on Heddon Street, near Piccadilly, then the largest commercial art gallery in London.

In September 2000, in New York, Gagosian Gallery held the Hirst show, Damien Hirst: Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings.

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Second London Gagosian Gallery, designed by Caruso St John, on Britannia Street, opened in May 2004 with a paintings and sculpture show by Cy Twombly.

From 2007 on, Gagosian Gallery has shown at the art gallery of the Eden Rock St Barths, Saint Barthelemy, including an exhibition of Richard Prince .

In November 2008, Gagosian Gallery expanded its Madison Avenue gallery to the fourth floor, with an inaugural exhibition of works by Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti in Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers, in collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation and the Bacon Foundation.

In 2010, Gagosian opened its Paris gallery on 350-square-meter at 4, rue de Ponthieu, where it debuted with an exhibition of five new acrylic abstracts and five bronze sculptures by Cy Twombly.

In October 2012, Gagosian Gallery opened a new gallery outside of Paris in Le Bourget.

From 2016 until 2021, Gagosian Gallery operated a space on Howard Street in San Francisco.

Gagosian Gallery has a global presence with 17 exhibition spaces in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Athens, Geneva, Hong Kong and Basel, designed by world-renowned architects including Caruso St John, Richard Gluckman, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, Selldorf Architects, and wHY Architecture.

In late 2011, following "Brazil: Reinvention of the Modern, " a 2011 exhibition Gagosian Gallery held in its Paris outpost featuring the 1960s and '70s Neo-Concrete artists Sergio de Camargo, Lygia Clark, Amilcar de Castro, Helio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, and Mira Schendel, the gallery will stage a major sculpture exhibition in a warehouse in Rio de Janeiro as part of the ArtRio fair.

Gagosian Gallery aims to maintain the price level of its artists by actively playing a role at art auctions.

Also, Gagosian Gallery purchased Ed Ruscha's Angry Because It's Plaster, Not Milk for $3.

When French photographer Patrick Cariou launched a copyright lawsuit against Richard Prince in 2009, the suit named as defendant Larry Gagosian Gallery, who had displayed the disputed series of painting in a show titled "Canal Zone".

In 2009, a deal that Gagosian Gallery had struck to buy $3 million in gold bricks for the work One Ton, One Kilo by the artist Chris Burden was frozen when it turned out that the bricks had been acquired from a Houston-based company owned by financier Allen Stanford, who was later charged by the U S Securities and Exchange Commission and sentenced to 110 years in prison for cheating investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in US history.

In March 2011, British collector Robert Wylde sued the Gagosian Gallery for selling him Mark Tansey painting, The Innocent Eye Test, which, it turned out, had been promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by its owner, Jan Cowles.