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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\tThe exhibition will open on November 4 at Gagosian\u2019s Beverly Hills gallery, where it will run for four days before heading to the gallery\u2019s new headquarters at 980 Madison Avenue in New York. The second installment opens November 14, just as the city\u2019s fall auction season gets underway, and runs through December 22.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s a fitting arrangement for a collection that owes much of its existence to friendship. Chow opened his first restaurant in London\u2019s Knightsbridge neighborhood in 1968, followed by Beverly Hills in 1974 and New York in 1979. Along the way, Mr. Chow became something of an unofficial dining room for the international art world. Artists ate there, collectors held court, and Chow, himself an artist, cultivated friendships with some of the biggest names in contemporary art. Many of those friendships produced portraits, several of which have hung in his restaurants for decades.<\/p>\n
\n\tGagosian, for his part, has been a regular at the high-end establishment for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard to think of a restaurant more synonymous with the art world than Mr. Chow,\u201d Gagosian said in a statement, adding that he\u2019d known Chow even longer than he\u2019d been hosting parties there.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\tAmong the works on offer is Ed Ruscha\u2018s Mr. Chow L.A.<\/em> (1973), which takes the restaurant\u2019s name quite literally. Ruscha painted it using ingredients from the kitchen, including egg yolk, soybean paste, beets, and coconut milk. Haring also took a culinary approach. His Mr. Chow as Green Prawns in a Bowl of Noodles<\/em> (1986) depicts three versions of Chow swimming among the ingredients of one of his restaurant\u2019s signature dishes.<\/p>\n \n\tWarhol\u2019s Portrait of Michael Chow<\/em> (1984) shows the restaurateur across two panels coated in the artist\u2019s trademark diamond dust. Another Warhol work, a folding screen from 1959 featuring a drawing of a dessert and a playful recipe, had for years stood near the dessert section of the Beverly Hills restaurant.<\/p>\n \n\tBasquiat painted Chow in 1985, producing a portrait that, according to Chow, took an unexpected turn during the sitting. \u201cI sat for Jean-Michel,\u201d Chow recalled in the announcement. \u201cHe made this powerful image and then ferociously painted over the picture without looking at me or the canvas.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThere are also portraits by Peter Blake, Hockney, and Schnabel, the last of whom incorporated broken plates and fine china from the restaurant into his work. An Urs Fischer candle sculpture will also be included.<\/p>\n \n\tOne work will include the names of even more artists: An Artist Drawing Book<\/em>, filled with drawings and inscriptions made by guests over the years. Its contributors include Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Louise Nevelson, Francesco Clemente, and Mark Grotjahn, among others. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cArt and artists have been at the heart of my life,\u201d Chow said in a statement. \u201cThe privilege of living with these treasures and sharing them with the public has brought me great joy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAs for his decision to part with them, Chow offered a characteristically theatrical explanation: \u201cNow, it\u2019s time to see them go out into the world and have my fifteen minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/gagosian-michael-chow-art-collection-basquiat-warhol-1234803916\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WARHO_1984.0087_CRP.jpg?w=1024″] Larry Gagosian has spent decades entertaining artists, collectors, and assorted celebrities at Mr. Chow. Now he\u2019s returning the favor, helping his longtime friend Michael Chow sell a selection of artworks that have decorated the restaurateur\u2019s famous dining rooms for years. The gallery will present \u201cFriends and Legends: The Collection of Michael Chow,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2224858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/RUSCH_1973.0030_CRP.jpg?w=400\")
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