SOTHEBY'S SELECT
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| Collector Yusaky Maezawa's tastes range from contemporary art to 20th-century design and Japanese ceramics. Here he poses with a group of 17th-century Oribe ware. Photograph by Yasunai Kikuma. |
Yusaku Maezawa is ready for his close-up. For his photo shoot with leading Japanese magazine photographer Yasunari Kikuma, the 41-year-old e-commerce entrepreneur arrives with a game attitude. The shoot will take place in front of a solid blue backdrop, the color chosen to echo the palette of
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled, a 1982 painting that Maezawa bought at a recent Sotheby’s auction for a record $110.5 million. Within a few minutes, Maezawa’s 200,000 followers on
Instagram and
Twitter learned that he was the painting’s new owner. Posting a photo of himself taken a few days earlier during a private viewing of the painting in New York. [
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