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The thrill of finding new additions and unexpected deletions on the ARTnews Top 200 is what makes our annual list such a compelling read. The key criterion for inclusion on the list is activity: these are collectors who are actively collecting. For the 2014 edition of the Top 200, some big players from past editions, including Adam Sender—who, in the past year, shut his hedge fund, Exis Capital Management, Inc., and sold an estimated $70 million worth of artworks from his collection through Sotheby’s—were removed to make room for 33 additions. 27 of these new collectors have never appeared on a “Top 200” list before. Notable newcomers include Bed, Bath and Beyond co-founder Warren Eisenberg, Campbell’s Soup heiress Charlotte Colket Weber, and Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin.
Below, we’ve split the 33 into those who have been on previous editions of the list and are returning after an absence—like Elaine Wynn, who, as market watchers will note, the New York Times pointed to as the purchaser of Francis Bacon’s triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud for $142.4 million at Christie’s New York last November—and those who are on the list for the first time.
Returning
Leonard Lauder
New York
Cosmetics (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.)
Cubism
Maramotti Family
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Fashion
Art informel; arte povera; transavanguardia; Neo-Expressionism; New Geometry; contemporary art
Werner Merzbacher
Zurich
Fur trading and finance
20th-century art, especially Fauvism and German Expressionism
Ronald O. Perelman
New York
Finance
Modern and contemporary art
Alain Wertheimer
New York
Fashion
Modern and contemporary art; Asian art
Elaine Wynn
Las Vegas
Hotels, casinos
Modern and contemporary art
First Timers
Candace Carmel Barasch
New York
Real estate
Contemporary art
Nicolas Berggruen
Beverly Hills, California
Inheritance, investments (Berggruen Holdings)
Modern and contemporary art
Ernesto Bertarelli
Gstaad, Switzerland
Biotech, Investments
Modern and contemporary art
Christian Bührle
Zurich
Technology
Old Masters; German Expressionism; Swiss art; modern and contemporary art
Edouard Carmignac
Paris
Asset management
Contemporary art
Trudy and Paul Cejas
Miami Beach
Investments (PLC Investments, Inc.)
Postwar and contemporary art, especially Zero
Kemal Has Cingillioglu
London
Banking
Contemporary art
Isabel and Agustín Coppel
Mexico City
Retail
International art
Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian
London and Venezuela
Investments
Modern and contemporary art; pre-Columbian and Latin American art
Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg
Union, New Jersey
Retail (Bed Bath & Beyond)
Contemporary art
Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg
New York
Retail (Bed Bath & Beyond)
Contemporary art
Lawrence J. Ellison
Woodside, California
Software
Late 19th- and early 20th-century European art; ancient to early 20th-century Japanese art
Susan and Leonard Feinstein
Long Island, New York
Retail (Bed Bath & Beyond)
Modern and contemporary art
Larry and Marilyn Fields
Chicago
Commodities
Contemporary art
Christy and Bill Gautreaux
Kansas City, Missouri
Crestwood Midstream Partners LP
Contemporary art
Thomas Lau
Hong Kong
Real estate
Modern and contemporary art
Jho Low
Hong Kong
Finance and investments
Impressionism; modern and contemporary art
Raymond J. McGuire
New York
Finance
African American and African art
Tom and Margot Pritzker
Chicago
Hotels and investments
Modern and contemporary art
Hilary and Wilbur L. Ross Jr.
Palm Beach, Florida
Private equity (distressed companies)
Surrealism; modern and contemporary art, especially Chinese and Vietnamese
Stephen Ross
New York
Real estate
Modern and contemporary art
Joseph Safra
New York; São Paulo; Geneva
Banking
Old Masters; Impressionism
Elizabeth and Frederick Singer
Great Falls, Virginia
Internet education
Modern and contemporary art
Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch
São Paulo, Brazil
Textiles (Vicunha Têxtil S.A.)
Modern and contemporary art, especially Brazilian
Wang Jianlin
Beijing
Real estate
Modern and contemporary art
Charlotte Colket Weber
New York; Ocala, Florida
Inheritance (Campbell’s Soup)
Impressionist paintings and drawings
Jochen Zeitz
Cape Town
Investments
Contemporary African art