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American art dealer (born 1945)

Lawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosian (born April 19, 1945) is an American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries. Working in concert with collectors including Douglas S. Cramer, Eli Broad, and Keith Barish, he developed a reputation for staging museum quality exhibitions of contemporary art.

Gagosian was born April 19, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, the elder sibling and only son to Armenian parents. His mother, Ann Louise, had a career in acting and singing, and his father, Ara, was an accountant and later a stockbroker. Between 1963 and 1969, he pursued a major in English literature at UCLA and graduated in 1969. He worked briefly in a record store, a bookstore, a supermarket, and in an entry level job as Michael Ovitz’s secretary at the William Morris Agency, but got his start in the art business by selling posters near the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. He closed his poster shop around 1976, when a former restaurant facility became available in the same complex on Westwood's Broxton Avenue,

Television executive Barry Lowen introduced Gagosian to Douglas S. Cramer, who introduced him to his ex wife, Joyce Haber, who sold him her California art, which he promptly and profitably resold.

In 1978, he opened his first gallery, on La Brea Avenue in West Hollywood, and began showing young Californians (Vija Celmins, Chris Burden) and new New Yorkers (Eric Fischl, Cindy Sherman, Jean Michel Basquiat). That same year, he bought a loft in New York on West Broadway opposite the Leo Castelli Gallery. It was Castelli who introduced Gagosian to Charles Saatchi and Samuel Newhouse Jr. In his first New York appearance, in 1979, he presented David Salle's first exhibition in a loft at 421 West Broadway, in collaboration with dealer Annina Nosei. Around that time, Basquiat worked from the ground floor display and studio space Gagosian had built below his Venice home on Market Street. After establishing a Manhattan gallery in the mid 1980s, located at the ground floor space in artist Sandro Chia’s studio building at 521 West 23rd Street,

In 2011, the British magazine ArtReview placed Gagosian fourth in their annual poll of "most powerful person in the art world". Artist Robert Longo included in his ‘Men in the Cities’ photographic series. In 2022, The Financial Times named Gagosian the most important art dealer in the world.

Gagosian was briefly engaged to the dancer Catherine Kerr. Since 2021, he has been in a relationship with artist Anna Weyant. designed by architect Charles Gwathmey for fellow architect François de Menil in 1983, for $8 million. In 2009, he had Christian Liaigre design a home for him in Flamands Beach on St. Barths. Gagosian bought the former Harkness Mansion, an enormous townhouse at 4 East 75th Street in Manhattan, for $36.5 million in 2011. In 2012, Gagosian was sued for $14 million in a suit involving the sale of an edition of Girl in Mirror. In September 2023, a class action lawsuit was filed against Kappo Masa, which is owned by Gagosian and Masa Takayama. The lawsuit alleges that Kappo Masa employees are owed tip money for their services and that the restaurant “underpaid its employees by 12 percent.”