14-05-2025
Want to buy a Picasso? Just swipe right on the Tinder for art
As collectors and aficionados perused the offerings at Frieze New York last week, they formed a who's who of the art world. Notably absent, however, was one of America's most successful private auctioneers. 'I'm not in the nitty-gritty — I don't go to the shows, I don't know who is hot. I'm not in the conversation,' Loïc Gouzer says. 'There's a lot of chat and I'm just not into it.'
Gouzer, the 44-year-old Swiss-born former head of contemporary art at Christie's and the man responsible for the sale of the most expensive artwork in history — Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which sold for $450 million in 2017 — was too busy preparing the lot of a late-era Picasso for a select group of
