\/script>'; Bawden, 35, worked at the prestigious Gagosian gallery as 74-year-old Larrys personal assistant from May 2013 to November 2015. He also became a de facto West Coast sales franchise for New York galleries including Mary Boone and Metro Pictures, exhibiting artists like Email. One day, on a SoHo stroll, Gagosian says, Castelli greeted a completely nondescript gentleman. When Gagosian asked who he was, Castelli replied: Oh, that was Si Newhouse. He made the move in 2003, with prices for new paintings increasing from a reported $400,000 to around $1 million at auction. Gagosian bought three on the spot, for $3,000 each, even though he had never heard of the artist. Cy enjoyed his cheeky energy, and he always came to Cy with the most interesting ideas. If they want to stay in the little gallery in the East Village, Ive got nothing against the East Village. And then it still took 10 or 15 more years after committing, where youre paying and youre putting down money, says Bell, who is still anticipating delivery of a Celebration sculpture called Party Hat and two other more recent Koons pieces. He reads books voraciously. $form.find('.signup-failed').show().siblings().hide(); } Casteels new Subway series is visual biography of the now fast-gentrifying but still diverse neighborhood. Luckily he was a nice guy. Gagosian had only been to New York once, as a teenager, but he flew out to meet Gibson, who in turn introduced him to his gallerist, Leo Castelli, who was tickled by the upstart. Gagosian does all of this on an unprecedented scale, with 16 locations from Hong Kong to New Yorks Chelsea, around 200 employees, a publishing arm that produces 40 books a year, a quarterly magazine and an in-house newspapereven a retail storefront that sells Warhol Campbells Soup candles and butterfly-print deck chairs by Gagosian artist Damien Hirst. var valid = ctx.validate( $form, $email); 2 Larry Gagosian Chrissie Erpf pictures. Pin. Elsewhere in the crowd, Larry Gagosian and Chrissie Erpf chatted with David Geffen , while MoMA Director Glenn Lowry . We've received your submission. }; Plus, Chrissie reveals her sure-fire way of scoping out cute guys in the audience while she plays guitar.Subscribe to watch more Team Coco videos https://www. But were like the one-tenthof the one-tenthof the one-tenth. At some point I just took a chance and cracked a jokeand he laughed. Im like an extension of his brush, Frederick Bowling says. }); //if there are cookies indicating that we shouldn't show the signup bar, then the modal won't have been added to the page slideInModal('Up'); function setCookie(cname, cvalue, expMinutes, prefix) { 'slideOutDown': 'slideOutUp' ); Stefan Ratibor, It was this nondescript, dingy kind of room. + '