‘We never even bid one dollar’: Sheikha Al-Mayassa discusses Salvator Mundi and controversy around Damien Hirst’s foetus works in new book
In 2006, Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani emerged as one of the art world’s power collectors after her father, the then ruling emir, appointed her to run Qatar Museums. The Guardians of Art: Conversations with Major CollectorsSheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad al Thani is on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. She has been responsible for bringing to Qatar blue chip contemporary artists such as Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst and Richard Serra. I told him that it was a slightly claustrophobic idea and I asked him to think of something else. “This phenomenon is not unique to the art world, which is a market like any other.
Source: Forbes August 01, 2023 23:12 UTC
