The world's most powerful art dealer — founder of Gagosian Gallery — who transformed the contemporary art market through relentless salesmanship and global expansion.
Gagosian's market-making: he identified that art dealing could be industrialized at scale — multiple galleries across global capitals, a client list spanning the world's ultra-wealthy, and an ability to make markets for artists by controlling supply and demand across his gallery network. The Gagosian model set the template for the mega-gallery era. His instinctive salesmanship (he started selling posters from a parking lot) combined with eventually sophisticated taste represents the archetype of the art market entrepreneur.
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