ARTnews magazine has published its annual list of the 200 most influential collectors of the world. The top ten includes spouses Arno, Black, Broad, Cohen, Alice Walton, Sheikh Al-Mayassa etc.

Collector Alice Walton
Fort Worth, Texas
Source: artnews.com

ARTnews magazine has published its annual list of the 200 most influential collectors of the world. The list is compiled on the basis of surveys conducted among collectors, art dealers, representatives of auction houses, museum directors, curators, and consultants from around the world. In the 23rd edition of the list of 17 new names - collectors from Russia, Brazil, China, Japan, England, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland and the United States. Fully list of the Top 200 can be found here (in alphabetical order). Of Russian collectors in the top 200 collectors in the world by ARTnews included: Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova (modernism and contemporary art), Maria and Oleg Baibakov (contemporary art), Leonid Michelson (impressionism, modernism, old master), and Dmitry Rybolovlev (art XIX - XX centuries.).

ARTnews Milton Esterou reporter asked a number of leading experts in the art market on how many collectors in the world are willing to, for example, spend 20 million dollars on a piece of art. According to the Geneva dealer Marc Blondeau, such collectors in the world, more than two hundred. Executive Vice President of Sotheby's Charles Moffett believes that such collectors in the world with around 150. A New York gallery owner David Nash thinks that these will just be about 200 people.

Buy a piece of art for $ 50 million and may be more expensive, according to Blondeau, only 100 collectors. This agrees with Charles Moffett. But David Nash believes that those who are willing to go above 50 million, in the world there are between 50 to 100 people.

in the top ten, which traditionally divide the drafters of this year, compared to the 2012-m , only one new name - the successor retail chain Wal-Mart Alice Walton, the mistress of your own Museum of American Art Crystal Bridges (Bentonville, Arkansas).

Ten's leading art collectors in the world (in alphabetical order)

Name	City	Occupations	Collectible
Helen and Bernard Arnault Hélène and Bernard Arnault)	Paris	Luxury goods (LVMH)	Contemporary Art
Debra and Leon Black (Debra and Leon Black)	New York	Investment Banking	old masters, impressionists and modernists, Chinese sculpture, contemporary art
Edith and Eli Broad (Edythe L. and Eli Broad)	Los Angeles	Finance and construction (retired)	Contemporary Art
Chen Pierre (Pierre Chen)	Taipei (Taiwan)	Electronics	modernists and contemporary art
Alexandra and Steven Cohen (Alexandra and Steven A. Cohen)	Greenwich (Connecticut)	Hedge Fund	Impressionists, modernists, modern art
Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder (Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder)	New York and Ueynskot (New York), Washington, Palm Beach, Florida), Paris	Cosmetics (the EstÉe Lauder companies inc.)	art of the late XIX - early XX century especially German and Austrian, PDI, medieval art, arms
Niarhos Philip (Philip S. Niarchos)	St. Moritz (Switzerland)	Delivery of goods and Finance	old masters, impressionists, modernists, modern art
Francois Pinault (François Pinault)	Paris	Luxury goods (PPR) and auctions (Christie's)	Contemporary Art
Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani)	Doha	Heiress	Modernism and Contemporary Art
Alice Walton (Alice Walton)	Fort Worth	Heiress network Wal-Mart	American Art, Modern Art

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : artnews.com , artinvestment.ru