1. Lawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosian was born on April 19,1945 and is an Armenian American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries.
14 Facts About Larry Gagosian
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Larry Gagosian's mother, Ann Louise, had a career in acting and singing, and his father, Ara, was an accountant and later a stockbroker.
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Larry Gagosian's grandparents immigrated from Armenia; he and his parents were born in California.
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Larry Gagosian worked briefly in a record store, a bookstore, a supermarket, and in an entry-level job as Michael Ovitz's secretary at the William Morris Agency, but got his start in the art business by selling posters near the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles.
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Larry Gagosian closed his poster shop around 1976, when a former restaurant facility became available in the same complex on Westwood's Broxton Avenue, and upgraded to prints by artists like Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander.
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In 1982, Nosei and Larry Gagosian staged an exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat in Los Angeles.
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Around that time, Basquiat worked from the ground-floor display and studio space Larry Gagosian had built below his Venice home on Market Street.
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That record was beaten in 2008, when Larry Gagosian paid $23.5 million at Sotheby's in November 2007 for Jeff Koons's Hanging Heart.
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On 10 May 2022, Larry Gagosian bought one of the four Shot Marilyns paintings by Andy Warhol, for a record breaking $195 million, making it the most expensive piece of 20th century art to change hands in a public sale.
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In 1988, Larry Gagosian bought the Toad Hall estate in Amagansett, New York, with an 11,000-square-foot house designed by architect Charles Gwathmey for fellow architect Francois de Menil in 1983, for $8 million.
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Larry Gagosian bought the former Harkness Mansion, an enormous townhouse at 4 East 75th Street in Manhattan, for $36.5 million in 2011.
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In 1969, Larry Gagosian pleaded guilty to two felony charges of forgery, stemming from his use of someone else's credit card.
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In 2003, Larry Gagosian paid $4 million settlement after federal prosecutors accused him and three partners of failing to pay taxes on the sale of 58 works of art.
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In 2012, Larry Gagosian was sued for $14 million in a suit involving the sale of an edition of Girl in Mirror.