PARIS. – Armenian News-NEWS.am presents an extract about famous art-dealer of the Armenian origin Larry Gagosian from the article by Pierre de Gasquet, which was published in French Les Echos newspaper.

As a big cat, he cannot stay watching long before catching its haunt. His iron-grey eyes are for an auctioneer, he seldom shakes head to trade. Gagosian never wastes money on trifle paintings. He mainly protects and supports the rating of “his” painters: Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Cy Twombly, Takashi Murakami, as well as Picasso and Warhol.

“Larry is a live legend,” Takashi Murakami stated.

“Larry has a unique position, which no other dealer can occupy now or later,” one of the active experts of modern art in New York Philippe Ségalot said.

Gagosian started his career by selling cheap placards in the California University branch in Los-Angeles since 1970s. He opened his first gallery in 1979 in Los-Angeles, and six years later in New York after having caught Leo Castelli’s, the great dealer of Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Warhol and Cy Twombly attention.