Jose Mugrabi was born on 1939 and is a Syrian Israeli businessman and art collector.
12 Facts About Jose Mugrabi
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Jose Mugrabi is the leading collector of Andy Warhol, with 800 artworks.
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Yosef "Jose" Mugrabi was born to a Syrian-Jewish family in Jerusalem.
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Jose Mugrabi's family managed a grocery store in Nahalat Ahim.
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At the age of 16, Jose Mugrabi went to Colombia to stay with relatives, and became involved in the textile business.
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Jose Mugrabi owned the world's largest collection of paintings by Andy Warhol, which are now owned by his sons.
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Jose Mugrabi owned the largest collection of Philippe Pasqua's paintings.
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The Jose Mugrabi art is stored in Zurich and near Newark, New Jersey.
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Jose Mugrabi's first purchase was a Renoir landscape, bought in 1982 for $121,000 on the advice of Deitch.
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In November 1988, at Sotheby's in New York, Jose Mugrabi set a new world record for Warhol's work when he purchased Marilyn Monroe for $3.96 million.
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Jose Mugrabi purchased Warhol's Men in Her Life, a painting based on an image of a young Elizabeth Taylor between husbands, for $63.3 million in 2010, the second-highest price paid for a Warhol at the time.
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In 2013, Mugrabi set a record for the most expensive work by a living artist, when he paid $58.4 million for Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog from Peter M Brant's collection at Christie's.