Enter the world of the choreographer, visual and performance artist Steven Cohen. + '<\/i>' A perfect day is going down to Chelsea, look at art galleries and grabbing lunchto me, perfect day.. Sign up for free newsletters and get more CNBC delivered to your inbox. But its doubtful that any of Cohens early co-workers could conceive of the lofty points to which he would ascend, with the height and force of a Pete Alonso homer. For more, see: Inside Billionaire Steve Cohens Comeback, When it comes to buying art, I am purely from the gut, Cohen tells Fortune. }); His collection of paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and other celebrated artists is valued at an estimated $1 billion. mps._queue.adclone = mps._queue.adclone || []; The Sterling Partners headed by current Mets majority owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz announced to the elation of fans across the Big Apple on Wednesday that they were negotiating the sale to Cohen of a controlling interest in the club. A guard stands watch over Lhomme Au Doigt at Christies Auction House in Manhattan, May 11, 2015. 'slideOutDown': 'slideOutUp' ); 'cat' : 'Business News|Wealth|Inside Wealth' , Steve Cohen was born in Great Neck, New York, to a piano . Its mind-blowing what hes put together, Larry Gagosian, Cohens longtime art dealer and pal, told Fortune. var i = cookieNames.length, On January 19, the firm announced it would open a London office and employ up to 70 people. var mpscall = { His art collection comes at the cost of eight hundred million dollars. cEnd = document.cookie.length; All rights reserved. The first amendment, which Congressman Steve Cohen offered with Congresswomen Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), incorporates the entirety of the Fair Debt Collection Improvement Act. prefix = 'artnet_newsletter_'; 'id' : '100795269' , $modal.find('.form-row').hide(); + '