The Rise of the Art Pros
By Anthony Haden-Guest | January 26, 2011 | 5:31 pm
A show of the Robert and Ethel Scull collection at the Acquavella Gallery last spring included Willem de Kooning's Police Register, a canvas David Geffen would decades later sell to Steven Cohen for, according to different reports, between $35 million and $60 million. Michael Findlay, the gallery director of Acquavella, told me during the show that collectors were approaching him, marveling at how cheaply-a few thousand dollars, often-Scull had bought the works. "I tell them nobody else wanted it,' he... MORE»
