![]() The German-born Zwirner is calmer, more genial. Gagosian, while powerful, is less given to the rages that once defined him. The other two Megas-Gagosian, 73, and David Zwirner, 54-are the ones most carefully watched at Art Basel. “It’s all about how fast one can make money.” Glimcher has made his son, Marc, 55, his successor, and it is Marc who comes to Basel now, while his father keeps to his small, lamp-lit office on Manhattan’s 57th Street-the street where contemporary art began. “This market has nothing to do with art,” he says. But he is openly weary of the global bazaar that contemporary art has become. Glimcher has notched many of the top sales of the last half-century, and remains a force. Oldest, at 80, is Arne Glimcher, who opened New York City’s Pace Gallery in 1963. If, that is, you believe those numbers: the mega-dealers may boast of a particular sale, but all are private, and they stay mum on profits in what is, notoriously, the world’s largest unregulated market of legal goods.Īt 48, Swiss-born Iwan Wirth, of Hauser & Wirth, is the youngest of the four. ![]() Or, in the case of Larry Gagosian, $1 billion. Not tens of millions over the course of a year, but hundreds of millions. They just sell a lot more art: not a million dollars here at Art Basel, but tens of millions. The mega-dealers occupy booths no different from the rest. Of that glittering throng, four figures stand apart. ![]() Every June they fly in like an air force of contemporary art: the world’s top dealers and collectors landing in Basel, Switzerland, for the year’s most significant fair.
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