German Internet entrepreneur Magnus Resch (Magnus Resch) has launched a database of the leading collectors of the world, Larry's List — "a List of Larry". It's been more than 3 100 names from 70 countries. The question that immediately arises in the form of a base name, who's Larry? I don't Gagosian? Officially no connection of this project with the world-renowned gallery owner no. Larry — a fictional character. Or maybe Magnus Resch compared its database with a comprehensive network of professional contacts Gagosian — it's like you climbed into his notebook, or to him in golovu@

Project launched from Hong Kong, information on collectors helped to collect 25 professionals. Used only the data available in the public domain, gathered from various sources, collectors themselves are not interviewed. Search our database to produce the names of the artists whose works are collected by collectors. For example, you can learn, in whose collection includes works by Francis bacon or Jean-Michel Basquiat. Access to the profiles of the collectors paid 9.5 for every dollar anketu@

in Addition, the developers of the base was the rating collectors, proceeding rather from their activity on the market and not from the quantity of the spent money. The level of activity of the collector is determined based on several criteria: Internet popularity (the number of references about it on specialized sites, including blogs and online magazines about art), participation in the life of museums and other cultural institutions, visiting art fairs, the promotion of their collections (publication of information about her online, her exhibiting in museums, etc.) and the size of kollektsii@

As defined by the drafters of the new database, the most active collectors of the world are Eli and Edith broad. Followed by the Cypriot Dakis Joanna (Dakis Joannou) and London collectors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz (Anita and Poju Zabludowicz). This is the first three most influential collectors differ from leaders top-200 collectors by ARTnews magazine, where in the first place hélène and Bernard Arnault, the second — Debra and Leon black, and Edith and Eli broad only tritium@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: bloomberg.com, artmarketmonitor.com, artinvestment.ru