Ultimate Whale Jeff Bezos Excites Art World With Record Purchase
- Bezos said to have bought an Ed Ruscha piece for $53 million
- World’s richest person isn’t known as a contemporary art buyer
Jeff Bezos kicked off the new decade with a $1.8 billion windfall from the sale of Amazon.com Inc. shares. There’s growing excitement in the art world that some of that -- or another chunk of his 12-figure fortune -- may be used to build an art collection.
Bezos, 56, bought two significant works during New York’s November auctions, according to art dealer Josh Baer, writing in his newsletter the Baer Faxt this week.