David Hockney headed the list of Britain's most generous philanthropists in 2012
He presented pictures to the fund in excess of 124 million dollars
David Hockney
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David Hockney (David Hockney) was the most generous patron of the UK version of the corresponding ratings of the year: the artist has got to the top of the list of the UK's largest contributors, giving art fund in its own name works of art in an amount twice the his own state.
List of the largest benefactors of the country make up the British charity Save the Newspaper and Sunday Times.
Hockney, whose fortune is estimated at 55 $ 2 million, donated to the Foundation David Hockney paintings in the amount of 124.2 million dollars and $ 1.2 million in cash (Sunday Times ranking is based on data about the donations made in 2010).
Hockney Foundation plans to donate through their works to the Museum of Fine Arts of Los Angeles County in the U.S. and London's Tate Museum. However, David Hockney, with all his generosity, did still not the largest donation in the UK in 2010, he was ahead of the other patrons only on the ratio between the size of donations and total capital. Its coefficient of the donor is 230: this means that the artist has brought as a gift to 2.3 times larger than the left at its disposal.
in second place after Hockney - financier Christopher Cooper-Heng (Christopher Cooper-Hahn), whose 80 points: this means that he donated 80 percent of his fortune - $ 117 million from 146 million.
If you do not consider the ratio of the donated money and the donor's capital, and on the amount of the gift, in the first place should be a businessman Richard Branson (Richard Branson), who donated to charity 581.6 million - 10.5 percent of his fortune.
The ninth line of the list - Elton John, survivor rating, donated in 2010, 50.5 million, or 14.1 percent of his fortune, as well as composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who gave to charity 31.8 million dollars or 3.3 per cent of his fortune. On the 20 th row - the producer of Victoria Beckham and Annie Lennox, the creator of the Spice Girls and the show American Idol, Simon Fuller (Simon Fuller), donated 46.6 million, or 7.6 percent of their income. All gifts and donations were mainly directed donors to the accounts of educational, artistic and medical facilities. A full list of the UK's largest benefactors can be found here:
Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI
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