And the art collector himself, drinking single-malt scotch, wearing Lobb loafers, lounging on a Michel Frank sofa in his second home in Aspen.
The gallery is owned by the art collector Charles Saatchi, who has become a champion of modern art in Britain, and the photographs are part of Mr Saatchi's private collection.
The art collector and philanthropist was 76 years old.
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Nearly 20 years later, Lopez is considered the most important contemporary art collector in Latin America, if not the world.
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"This is going to take us into the 22nd century, " the philanthropist and art collector said.
Without divulging the price, the collector asked the former Citibank Art Advisory vice president for an assessment of its market value.
"A lot of collectors look for undervalued groups of art, and women could easily be considered the last big group, " says Michel Witmer, a New York collector and board member of the European Fine Art Fair.
The German-born millionaire, womanizer, photographer, art collector and man-about-globe had followed the fast-living course of his life to its end: Better to go out with a bang than with a whimper (Sachs was believed to have Alzheimer's disease).
The son of an innkeeper, Mr Morrison became one of the wealthiest British merchants of the 19th Century and a prolific art collector.
For starters, the art is sometimes housed in what used to be the absurdly rich collector's mansion, which still retains many of the trappings of his or her wealth, occasionally peculiar taste and social-climbing prowess.
"The opportunity for a museum or a private collector to buy one of the great icons of art history is unlikely to be repeated any time soon, " said Shaw.
This was at a party to celebrate an installation in the lobby of Andy Warhol photographs from the collection of James Hedges, an art collector and former hedge funder.
Nowadays, as Gates rolls out his ever-expanding ideas for Dorchester, he's also ping-ponging to museum shows, art fairs and collector dinners the world over as befits an emerging artist on the cusp of superstardom.
The Spanish Surrealist artist's 1949 watercolor and gouache drawing was one of more than a dozen works on display in the first exhibition of the gallery, launched last May by art collector Adam Lindemann.
Gregarious, engaging and comfortable in seven languages, David cultivated relationships with the likes of dealer Kahnweiler and billionaire art collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, who bought works by Picasso, Kandinsky and Italian futurist Giacomo Balla.
George Washington Vanderbilt, who built the estate, was an ardent traveler, art collector and bibliophile whose interests are embodied in Biltmore's furnishings and design.
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The piece is full of dramatic movement and, Pace Gallery dealer Marc Glimcher reasoned, perfectly matched the hyperkinetic energy of New York City adman art collector Richard Kirshenbaum.
To coincide with the anniversary, Stolen is screening at film festivals in the US. It interweaves the story of the theft and also of the pursuit of the missing works with the collector Isabella Stewart Gardner's own correspondence with Bernard Berenson, the aesthete and art adviser.
In addition, Tamie documents her travels for the Huffington Post, owns the indie creative collective Crown Jewels, and is an avid art collector, mother and wife.
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In 2011 Perez, an avid collector of Latin American art, sparked controversy when the Miami Art Museum agreed to rename itself the Jorge M.
For Dr. Barnes was a collector like no other, a man whose contributions to the art life of this country were unprecedented in his time and have been unmatched since.
If you're thinking of becoming a collector and having a family, be prepared for your children to resent the art.
One collector told me recently that one of the great advantages she found when collecting contemporary art is that, if all else fails, the artist is still around to vouch for his or her work.
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It's an extreme case but it highlights a very real dilemma for every neophyte collector who's thinking about hiring an art adviser: Are you putting yourself in the hands of someone who's going to treat your walls the way a shady auto mechanic treats your alternator?
This new interest means more potential collectors who have no idea where to even begin acquiring art or might not live close to any galleries: The site will help them make the leap from appreciator to collector.
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