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Larry Gagosian (Lawrence Gilbert Gagosian) was born on 19 April, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American art dealer (born 1945). Discover Larry Gagosian's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 19 April, 1945
Birthday 19 April
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1945

Lawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosian (born April 19, 1945) is an American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries.

Working in concert with collectors including Douglas S. Cramer, Eli Broad, and Keith Barish, he developed a reputation for staging museum-quality exhibitions of contemporary art.

Gagosian was born April 19, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, the elder sibling and only son to Armenian parents.

His mother, Ann Louise, had a career in acting and singing, and his father, Ara, was an accountant and later a stockbroker.

His grandparents (original last name Ghoughasian) immigrated from Armenia; he and his parents were born in California.

1963

Between 1963 and 1969, he pursued a major in English literature at UCLA and graduated in 1969.

He worked briefly in a record store, a bookstore, a supermarket, and in an entry-level job as Michael Ovitz’s secretary at the William Morris Agency, but got his start in the art business by selling posters near the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles.

1969

In 1969, Gagosian pleaded guilty to two felony charges of forgery, stemming from his use of someone else’s credit card.

He received a suspended sentence and probation.

1976

He closed his poster shop around 1976, when a former restaurant facility became available in the same complex on Westwood's Broxton Avenue, and upgraded to prints by artists like Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander.

His gallery Prints on Broxton was renamed the Broxton Gallery when he began to show a wider array of contemporary art.

The gallery worked with up-and-coming artists such as Vija Celmins, Alexis Smith, and Elyn Zimmerman, and staged exhibitions such as "Broxton Sequences: Sequential Imagery in Photography", which included the work of John Baldessari and Bruce Nauman.

Television executive Barry Lowen introduced Gagosian to Douglas S. Cramer, who introduced him to his ex-wife, Joyce Haber, who sold him her California art, which he promptly and profitably resold.

1978

In 1978, he opened his first gallery, on La Brea Avenue in West Hollywood, and began showing young Californians (Vija Celmins, Chris Burden) and new New Yorkers (Eric Fischl, Cindy Sherman, Jean-Michel Basquiat).

That same year, he bought a loft in New York on West Broadway opposite the Leo Castelli Gallery.

It was Castelli who introduced Gagosian to Charles Saatchi and Samuel Newhouse Jr.

1979

In his first New York appearance, in 1979, he presented David Salle's first exhibition in a loft at 421 West Broadway, in collaboration with dealer Annina Nosei.

1980

In the early 1980s, Gagosian developed his business rapidly by exploiting the possibilities of reselling works of art by blue-chip modern and contemporary artists, earning the nickname "Go-Go" in the process.

After establishing a Manhattan gallery in the mid-1980s, located at the ground-floor space in artist Sandro Chia’s studio building at 521 West 23rd Street, Gagosian began to work with a stable of super collectors including David Geffen, Newhouse, Saatchi, and David Ganek.

1982

In 1982, Nosei and Gagosian staged an exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat in Los Angeles.

Around that time, Basquiat worked from the ground-floor display and studio space Gagosian had built below his Venice home on Market Street.

1988

Bidding on behalf of Newhouse in 1988, Gagosian paid over $17 million for False Start (1959) by Jasper Johns, a then-record price for a work by a living artist.

In 1988, Gagosian bought the Toad Hall estate in Amagansett, New York, with an 11,000-square-foot house designed by architect Charles Gwathmey for fellow architect François de Menil in 1983, for $8 million.

2003

In 2003, Gagosian paid $4 million settlement after federal prosecutors accused him and three partners of failing to pay taxes on the sale of 58 works of art.

2008

That record was beaten in 2008, when Gagosian paid $23.5 million at Sotheby's in November 2007 for Jeff Koons's Hanging Heart (an artist who happens to belong to the Gagosian gallery's stable).

On 10 May 2022, Gagosian bought one of the four Shot Marilyns paintings by Andy Warhol, for a record breaking $195 million, making it the most expensive piece of 20th century art to change hands in a public sale.

2009

In 2009, he had Christian Liaigre design a home for him in Flamands Beach on St. Barths.

2010

In 2010, internet pioneer David Bohnett sold his 5,700 square foot Holmby Hills compound, originally designed by A. Quincy Jones for Gary Cooper, to Gagosian for $15.5 million, according to public records.

2011

In 2011, the British magazine ArtReview placed Gagosian fourth in their annual poll of "most powerful person in the art world".

Artist Robert Longo included in his ‘Men in the Cities’ photographic series.

In 2022, The Financial Times named Gagosian the most important art dealer in the world.

Gagosian was briefly engaged to the dancer Catherine Kerr.

Since 2021, he has been in a relationship with artist Anna Weyant.

Gagosian bought the former Harkness Mansion, an enormous townhouse at 4 East 75th Street in Manhattan, for $36.5 million in 2011.

2012

In 2012, suits and counter-suits were filed by Gagosian and Ronald Perelman against one another concerning an unfinished work by Jeff Koons and 10 others worth up to $45 million.

In 2012, Gagosian was sued for $14 million in a suit involving the sale of an edition of Girl in Mirror.

In September 2023, a class action lawsuit was filed against Kappo Masa, which is owned by Gagosian and Masa Takayama.

The lawsuit alleges that Kappo Masa employees are owed tip money for their services and that the restaurant “underpaid its employees by 12 percent.”