ARTnews magazine has published a list of major collectors in the world of art. It became our compatriot Roman Abramovich

ARTnews magazine recently published a list of major progress in the world of art collectors. Top Ten is almost the same as last year , only the place of Victor Pinchuk took Roman Abramovich. Rating is based on the polls, which correspondents conducted among collectors, art dealers, the auction houses, museum directors, curators, and consultants in 22 countries around the world.

So, in the Top-10 include (in alphabetical order):

Roman Abramovich (London, Moscow, Russia)

Russian businessman and former owner of the company «Sibneft». Former governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. In the rating of the richest people in the world, compiled by the magazine Forbes, took 51 th place. His condition is estimated at 8.5 billion dollars. Abramovich collects works by artists modernists. Among his most famous works include purchases Alberto Giacometti (Alberto Giacometti), Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon) and Lusiena Freud (Lucian Freud). Podruga Abramovich Daria Zhukova is the founder of the Center of Contemporary Culture «garage».

Debra and Leon Black (New York)

Leon Black (Leon Black) - founder of investment firm Apollo Management. His condition - 1,1 billion dollars (647 th place in the list of Forbes). He and his wife Debra (Debra Black) collect paintings by old masters, impressionists and modernists, as well as Chinese sculpture and contemporary art.

Edith and Eli Brody (Los Angeles)

son of Lithuanian immigrants, Eli Brody (Eli Broad) in the list of the richest people in the world, took 93rd place. The state with an estimated 5.2 billion dollars, he has work in real estate. Brody and his wife Edith (Edythe L. Broad) are among the world's major collectors of contemporary artists. In particular, they have an impressive collection of works of Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons). In 1984 he founded the Brody Fund Broad Art Foundation. And in February last year in Los Angeles opened the Museum of Modern Art spouses Brody (The Broad Contemporary Art Museum). It is located in the Art Museum district of Los Angeles (LACMA). Six months ago, Eli Brody rescued was on the brink of closure of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) , and May 13, bought at Christie's auction canvas Sam Francis (Sam Francis) «Gray», after which the has been involved in protracted litigation.

Stephen Cohen (pcs. Connecticut)

Status of Steven Cohen (Steven A. Cohen), living in Greenwich, Connecticut, is estimated at 5.5 billion (87 th place ranking in Forbes). He is one of the most influential traders on Wall Street. In 1992, Cohen founded the hedge fund SAC Capital. Its collection includes works by Impressionist, modern, contemporary artists. Among the acquisitions billionaire - the painting of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol), Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock), Vincent van Gogh (Vincent van Gogh) and Paul Gauguin (Paul Gauguin), as well as installation Demiena Hurst (Damien Hirst) «The physical impossibility of death in the minds of living »(the famous« shark in formalin »).

Marie-Jose and Henry Krevis (New York, NY. Colorado units. Florida)

The financial magnate Henry Krevis (Henry R. Kravis), took the list of 205 billionaires first place. His condition is estimated at $ 3 billion. His wife, Marie-Jose (Marie-Josée Kravis) - economist from Canada, President of the Board of Trustees of the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Krevisy collected the paintings and graphics of old masters, impressionism, twentieth-century art and French furniture.

Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder (New York, Washington, Palm Beach, Paris)

Ronald Lauder (Ronald S. Lauder) - businessman, son of the founders of cosmetics company Estée Lauder Este Lauder and Joseph. Status of $ 2 billion it provided in the list of Forbes 334 th place. Lauder in 1986-1987 was led by the U.S. Embassy in Austria, and in 2007 was elected as the President of the World Jewish Congress. Lauder has helped a number of pre-war owners to return for the restitution of works of art selected from them Nazis. In 2001, billionaire, opened in New York museum called Neue Galerie, where the works of German and Austrian artists of the twentieth century. The main exhibits include «Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I» Gustav Klimt (Gustav Klimt), which Lauder, according to the news, bought for 135 million dollars, and «Street Scene» Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner), bought them for 38 , 1 million. Vendors of both works received their restitution.

Francois Pinault (Paris)

Francois Pinault (François Pinault) - head of the company PPR, which belong to different shops and luxury brands. He also owns the auction house Christie's. Condition Pino and his family is estimated at 7.6 billion dollars (60 th place ranking in Forbes). Pinot collects works by contemporary artists. recently, he opened the exhibition in Venice .

Mitchell Reyls (pcs Maryland, New York)

The head of the corporation Danaher. In the Forbes list, he is at 296 th place (2.3 billion dollars). Reyls collects works by contemporary artists and modernists. In 2006 he opened in the town of Potomac (Maryland) Museum Gledstoun.

Elu Carlos Slim (Mexico)

Elu Carlos Slim (Carlos Slim Helú) - the richest in the Top-10. In the Forbes ranking, it ranks third, after Bill Gates (Bill Gates) and Warren Baffetta (Warren Buffett). His condition - 25 billion dollars. Business Sliema Elu telecommunications. It collects works of old masters art of Mexican modernism. In memory of his wife, who died in 1999, the billionaire founder of Mexico City Museum Soumayi (Soumaya), now has the largest in Latin America gathering sculpture Auguste Rodin (Auguste Rodin).

Sheikh Saud Bin Muhammad Bin Ali Al-Thani (Doha)

member of the royal family of Qatar, Sheikh Saud Bin Muhammad Bin Ali Al-Thani ( Sheikh Saud bin Mohammad bin Ali al-Thani) collects antiquities, paintings by old masters, rare book, photos Islamic art and works by contemporary artists. Some items from his collection can be seen in Museum of Islamic Art, which opened in Doha last November, .

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: artnews.com , forbes.com , artinvestment.ru