Most of you are intimately familiar with Steve Cohen’s status as a ladies man, but few have seen the harem up close and personal. Until now. As you’re aware, the big guy has offered his women up on a silver platter for your consumption at Sotheby’s starting tomorrow (unless you can finagle an invite to the private party for SC’s closest friends (DB) going down tonight).
We checked out the spread this morning and while we were disappointed that Mr. Steve was not on the tenth floor to curate personally, Sotheby’s did supply its worldwide head of contemporary art, Tobias Meyer, for the occasion (it was Meyer’s suggestion over dinner at Cohen’s Crown Lane pad six weeks ago that got the ball rolling on the show). We’re pleased to report that while doing a bang up job riffin’ on pics, Meyer steadfastly refused to divulge any classified information such as where the portraits are displayed at Cohen’s home, the insured value of the collection, or even the menu at that fateful meal,* which will undoubtedly please the sometimes secretive SC (and what we have it on good authority was a SAC issued mole packing heat in the back of the room dispatched to oversee things).
Despite the mild upset of not being chastised for showing up to the event wearing the same outfit as the man of the hour (we’d donned our SAC-issued fleece for the occasion), and our proclivity for occasionally gently ribbing the denizens of 72 Cummings Point Road, it was difficult if not impossible to not bask in the reflected glow of the money hanging on the walls. In all sincerity, the show was prettay prettay prettay sweet. It was so great, in fact, that we’re left without the heart or the will to muster even a single Ping joke (the source of our strength) and you know how much that pains us.
The exhibit opens tomorrow and runs ’til April 14 and we recommend it highly. But just in case you can’t make it to 72nd and York, here’s a tour of the $450 million extravaganza.
*He claims he couldn’t remember. Like we’re buying that.
2 and 20: Freud, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso.
See this guy? He stood directly in front of a naked, 10 year-old Brooke Shields THE ENTIRE TIME. No other piece was assigned a buddy.
Not this Picasso or anything.
Dealbreaker reader contest: guess how much money is hanging on these two walls.
This Richard Prince is my favorite. (And I have a birthday coming up in five months. Just sayin, Steve.)
This would work also.
As David Norman, executive vice president and co-chairman of impressionist and modern art worldwide, told us, “Steve Cohen is so instinctive about art. He does it from the gut.”
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MCC offered to pose for free.
press pass? blogger bitchslap?
The last one is by Lisa Yuskavage. Do a Google Image Search on that – the one pictured here is the most tame from her collection.
Is that a picture of an underage girl?
@4- what are you talking about? it hasn’t even opened yet.
@6- is ten less than 18?
When/where is the Sender/Loeb rebuttal gallery?
And value on walls
@6
Seems like it to me…guess the difference between pedophilia and “art” is a couple extra 0′s and a fancy frame, eh?
Looks like lisa is a one trick pony.
@9- yes, I want to see senders collection of golf bag totem poles.
@8
Good for you. I looked at the pictures but not the text … my bad … I’m a visual kinda guy.
@10
I hear you. I’m more than speechless. Stevie must have special needs.
Lolita is art.
$38MM for the Matisse…don’t know the other…
@15- the de kooning?
Oh, let me see, I’m going to say 137m plus 63m or so for Peasant Girl for $200m+ total.
Yuskavage had a pretty phenominal (read: boner inducing) show through last weekend. those who missed it, for shame.
@ Miami
I think so too, as well as some other things which “the law” may disagree with me over, alas, I lack the aforementioned 0′s to get away with being steadfast in my beliefs, sigh…
He definitely has a terrific collection, albeit a little obsessive, but that Brooke Shields photo is all sorts of WRONG
Re: The “contest”
The one on the right is Willem de Kooning’s “Woman III” which David Geffen sold to Stevie for $137.5 million. It’s a rather ugly crock of shit if you ask me, but is supposedly the second most expensive painting ever sold (inflation adjusted) behind Jackson Pollock’s even uglier one (also from Geffen). The other one is obviously a Van Gogh but meh.
So yeah, $135.5M + ____ = I only do half-assed work.
($135.5M is the new $137.5)
Peasant Girl is hardly ‘meh,’ if not Starry Night gorgeous.
@21- thanks for the info everyone already knew, re the de Kooning. But since you failed to give us the total, you FAILED THE CONTEST.
@11 yeah but its a great trick…
great tits
I guess Stevie’s trying to prove he’s not gay again, eh?
depends how you count. $137.5M + the van gogh, which he bought in a set of two from Steve Wynn in 2005 for $110M. Hard to say what one of the two would be worth by itself, but call it ~$55M and you get $192.5M in art.
@27- just because he bought them for x + y doesn’t mean they’re worth that price now (could be more, could be less).