Monday, 23 January 2012

Francois Pinault Art Collection

Francois Pinault


Francois Pinault

Art collection: $1.4 billion
French luxury goods titan whose business empire includes auction house Christie's. His personal art collection encompasses 2,000-plus works by over 80 artists including Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian and Jeff Koons as well as new talents such as Swiss-born Urs Fischer. Displays some of his key works, such as Maurizio Cattelan's "Untitled 2007" (pictured), at his two museums in Venice: the Palazzo Grassi, which opened in 2006; and the Punta della Dogana, a former customs house that opened in June. Once told Forbes: "I am interested in art that challenges me, that disturbs the calm and reassurance of the bourgeois lifestyle."

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