Entrepreneur Grant Cardone says collecting and displaying art brings him more satisfaction than investing.
Grant Cardon
Millionaire Grant Cardone has been collecting art for about 15 years and says he is a spontaneous buyer.
“I don’t consider myself a connoisseur. I’m very new to the art world. If I like it, I’ll buy it. I don’t care who makes it,” he told CNBC. In addition to the works displayed in his home, Cardone also maintained an art gallery to house his extensive collection.
CNBC spoke to Cardone on video – in his home office in Miami, behind him an untitled work by American graffiti artist Retna, which Cardone purchased at an online auction.
“I clicked the button—without really doing any research…and got this piece…it arrived here and I absolutely love it,” he said. He said he paid “about $140,000” for the work.
A work titled “It’s Now Time” by artist Fringe is on display at Grant Cardone’s home gallery.
Grant Cardon
In the hallway of Cardone’s home are two works by American pop artist Burton Morris, both depicting red Coca-Cola bottles arranged in a repeating pattern, “Coca-Cola 50A” and “Coca-Cola 50B.” “I bought this from Tommy Hilfiger…it reminded me of the importance of scale,” said Cardone, the fashion designer behind the house. The previous owner of the house.
kaden, a real estate investor The author of “The 10 X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure” has about 17 million followers on social media and uses his platform to occasionally offer advice on art investing.
“[Followers]are starting to see art and say, hey, you know, is this good for you? I’m like, yeah, this is good for me… It’s better than dollars or euros… …The stock market doesn’t give me any satisfaction and I won’t look back at my apple Share and feel good. But I walk into a gallery or my kitchen or my office and I see a piece and I’m like, man, this is so cool.
Gallery at Grant Cardon’s home in Miami. A print of Basquiat’s work can be seen below left.
Grant Cardon
Cardone’s gallery, with its floor-to-ceiling windows and security guard, houses American contemporary artist Kenny Scharf’s “Blipsibshabshok” (1997), an abstract painting with colorful futuristic symbols. Cardone owns a second Scharf “Controlopuss” (2018), a striking red image of a multi-legged creature that was purchased from the auction house for $279,400 phillips.
“This is a Basquiat. The original sold for $45 million,” Cardone said, pointing to a print of a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat titled “Flexible” (1984/2016) . The original work has been sold by the auction house Phillips sold for $45.3 million 2018. “I bought this piece with the house,” he said, pointing to a piece above Basquiat called “Read More” by the American contemporary artist Al-Baseer Holly.
Grant said he chooses the works he buys based on intuition. “I’ll try to get away from it. If I keep seeing it, or I keep thinking about it, then I’ll look back and say, okay, I should have had this,” he said.
“I plan to never sell any of this stuff. It’s really for my personal enjoyment. You know, art makes me happy,” he said.
Feminine Art in Florence
Former investment banker Christian Levitt has a different approach. He has been collecting art for nearly 30 years, starting with Old Master paintings and Roman, Greek and Egyptian antiques, then moving on to works by female Abstract Expressionists.
Art collector Christian Levett gives a private tour of his home in Florence, Italy. His collection consists primarily of abstract expressionist works by female artists.
Christian Levitt
In addition to owning an art museum in Mougins, France, Levitt also hosts tours of art on the walls of his home in Florence, Italy, where he lives for six months a year—you could say his entire home is an art gallery. “It’s kind of like a private traveling museum,” Levitt told CNBC by phone.
Levett’s home, located near the city’s famous Old Bridge, features 20-foot-high ceilings, original murals and two floors of artwork, all created by women. The collection consists primarily of Abstract Expressionist works by artists such as the impressionist Mary Cassatt and the Surrealist Dorothea Tanning.
Levitt invites small groups to view his collection once or twice a week, and often visits in person. Groups are sometimes made up of students from American universities with campuses in Florence, such as Harvard and New York University, or from museums or patron groups.
A 1977 painting by American artist Joan Mitchell is a highlight of Levitt’s collection, he said. The title of this large work is “when they leave,” nearly 240 centimeters high and 180 centimeters wide, hangs in his dining room.
Levett acquired it around 2015 for about $2.8 million.
Christian Levett moved from collecting antiques to works by female artists, as shown below in his home in Florence.
Christian Levitt
“The painting could now fetch $15 million to $18 million at auction…Mitchell remains one of the most important female painters of the 20th century.th century,” Levitt said.
He also spoke highly of Elaine de Kooning’s oil painting of John F. Kennedy, which was commissioned in 1963 as part of a series of portraits of the former US president. Bought the artwork in 2020 for approximately $600,000.
Levitt said he opened his home to students in part because doing so might spark their interest in supporting the arts in the future. “Students…are the acorns of the art world,” he said.
The work of female artists is a focus for Levitt as he prepares to reopen his museum in France as Mougins Museum of Female Artists June 21st. He is currently selling the museum’s former collection of art and antiques in a series. Auction at Christie’s Londonwhich has so far reached nearly £9.5 million ($11.9 million).
bunker art
Christian Boros and Karen Boros’ home, located atop a bunker in the heart of Berlin, Germany, houses their private art collection, the Boros Collection.
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In a unique art space in Berlin, couple Christian and Karen Boros live in a 6,000-square-foot penthouse above their private collection. this Poros series The museum is housed in a pre-World War II bunker, a massive high-rise that the couple purchased in 2003 and spent several years transforming into a five-story exhibition space, with their home on the sixth floor.
During the war, the bunker housed up to 4,000 people, and after the war it was used as a storage facility for tropical fruit and later turned into a nightclub. According to Raoul Zoellner, director of the Poros Foundation, 450 tons of concrete ceilings and walls were removed during its transformation into exhibition spaces and housing.
Cyprien’s artwork “Gaillard Lesser Koa Moorhen”, 2013, belongs to the Boros Collection.
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Christian, an advertising entrepreneur, told the outlet he bought his first piece of art – a handful of spades by German artist Joseph Beuys – when he was 18. Financial Times.
Zoellner said in “The Bunker”: “This bunker is not a museum…but a special project started by a passionate couple of collectors who could not imagine how many diamond saws would be needed to dismantle dozens of bunker walls, or What will this trigger.
Karen Boros and Christian Boros live in a Berlin penthouse above their art collection.
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Zollner added that since its remodeling in 2008, nearly 600,000 people have taken guided tours of the bunker and rotated displays of the Boros collection. There are currently 114 works on display, “focusing on the various positions of the human body,” Zoellner said. “The focus of these works is on the impulse to optimize and the process by which our bodies gradually adapt to technological devices,” he said.
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