Where you immediately became friendly and associated with the very successful art dealer Leo Castelli? } appendNewsletterSignup(); What are the challenges, what are the opportunities?. But over the last few years it has given me more time to work on things Im particularly interested in. url: $form.attr('action'), if (!found) { Born in 1995 in Calgary, Canada, Weyant studied painting at theRhode Island School of Design, which she says she attended because it was the closest school to New York City that accepted her. Precisely what form that future takes remains uncertain. Larry Gagosian was born on the 19th April 1945, in Los Angeles, California, USA of part-Armenian origin, and is a dealer of modern and contemporary art. ouibounceAPIaccess = ouibounce( return ctx.regex.email.test( $email.val() ); When he introduced Madonna to Gagosian, he told him that she was going to be "huge". function getCookie(cname, prefix) { According to the Daily Mail, Weyant is dating her 71-year-old power art dealer, Larry Gagosian after falling out with a former gallerist who bought one of her paintings for US$15,000, only to sell it a year later for US$1.6 million. Gagosian, who visited her spring 2021 show, invited the artist to have dinner at his Beverly Hills mansion, recalling that he was struck when she asked if he had any gin, which is one of his favorite drinks. I bought my first Francis Bacon from him, Hill continued, adding that he also bought his first Picasso, a painting of Picassos lover Marie-Thrse, from Gagosian. It was hard to tell whether the seismic shift in the room came from Gagosians presence, or from the woman by his side: up-and-coming artist Anna Weyant. }; Annie Armstrong, Previously, he was dating Chrissie Erpf whom he dated for many years. $modal.find('.form-row').hide(); pagetypeforce = pagetypeurl.substr(pagetypeurl.length - 3); var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); The mega dealer, who started in the 1970s by selling posters on the street, represents some of the most important artists of our time (Cy Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Prince), but has also come to symbolize and set the tone for a sexy gallery scene of museum-quality shows, glamorous exhibition openings and high prices. 7 Days: Larry Gagosian, Art's Bad Boy. She still lives, and paints, in a modest 675-square-foot one-bedroom apartment on New York's Upper West Side, where she has resided since moving to the city. return numDays * 24 * 60; }) The show sold out, with every piece going for between $2,000 to $12,000. * Generic setCookie() method, used by setNewsletterCookie(). return; Though Weyant declined to described her falling out with Blum in detail, she told the Journal that she was unhappy with how things ended, and that the consignment of 'Falling Woman' was the final straw in her decision to switch to Gagosian. 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It's unclear if he was still representing Weyant when the artwork was dispatched to the tony auction house. $form.find('.errors').children().hide(); From selling her painting on the sidewalk for US$400 just three years ago, Weyant has quickly become the toast of the art world, with several of her works fetching more than US$1 million at auction, and their prices expected to clime even higher. ), Van de Weghe wouldnt reveal whether he purchased the latest work for himself, for stock, or for a client (those lines get blurry in this business anyway). if (getCookie(cookieNames[i]).length) { Theyd also been spotted together at an Albert Oehlen opening in Londonand at Larrys most recent birthday party. if (!onSuccess) { Noor Brara, data: JSON.stringify( $form.serializeFormJSON() ), } The first piece by Weyant ever offered at auction, a drawing of long bare legs called Untitled, fetched nearly four times its estimate at Phillips last June. "Sounds like some old French guy, Jean-Michel Basquiat," he thought. When the dust settled, Weyants work had been won by an online bidder for $1.6 million, setting a new auction record for the painter. slideInModal('Down'); The trustees, who are compensated, are expected to serve three-year terms, at which point they will rotate off unless Gagosian asks them to stay on. Gagosian firmly denied these reports. if (generalSettings.loadFontAwesome) { + ' @media (max-width: 767px){ .close-signup {top:0 !important;} }' var ctx = this; } On. At the heart of Weyants split with her former dealer Blum appears to be her painting Falling Woman, which she says she sold to him last year for US$15,000 just half what his gallery was charging collectors for other works in her spring 2021 show. It wouldnt be the change of the season in New York City without chatter about what record-breaking Jean-Michel Basquiat piece is next slated to come to auction. setNewsletterCookie('signedUp', 1); }); Larry Gagosian and Artist Anna Weyant Step Out on the Town, Buyer of Last Week's $21 Million Basquiat Outed, and More Art-World Gossip Plus, which art-media company just had an epic shakeup at the top of the masthead? }, 100); } [2] Between 1963 and 1969, he pursued a major in English literature at UCLA and graduated in 1969. That same year, he bought a loft in New York on West Broadway opposite the Leo Castelli Gallery. One insider at Sothebys on Thursday compared Weyant to Taylor Swift: Both are prodigies, as well as the targets of misogynistic gossip and heavy scrutiny of their dating lives. '