Five celebrity art collectors who have spent millions on their collections
From Madonna’s estimated US$100 million haul of paintings to P. Diddy reportedly paying the highest amount for a living African-American artist, these superstars have a serious love of art
American rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, aka P. Diddy, spent US$21.1 million on a Kerry James Marshall painting at Sotheby’s last week.
While the winning bid for the painting – called Past Times – is widely reported to be the highest amount ever paid for the work of a living African-American artist, P. Diddy is hardly the only celebrity who has ever splashed out on art.
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Here are four other stars who own an impressive collection of artworks.
Madonna
It is no surprise that the Material Girl has a penchant for artworks. Before becoming the Queen of Pop, Madonna crashed on the couch of Keith Haring, hung out with Andy Warhol and briefly dated Jean-Michel Basquiat during her time as a destitute dancer in New York in the 1970s and early ’80s.
Though Basquiat had given her some of his artworks, Madonna revealed in an interview with Artnet News in 2015 that the influential graffiti artist took back the paintings after the relationship ended and painted over them.