Art World (https://news.artnet.com/art-world) Wet Paint: Daughter Behind $450 Million Art Trove Is Pals With Tiffany Trump, Poker Pro Banned During Frieze, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip Which tech billionaires hit up the Los Angeles fairs? Which artist has split from influential dealer Anton Kern? Read on for answers. Nate Freeman (https://news.artnet.com/about/nate-freeman-1201), February 20, 2020 Serena Marron at the Coach and Friends of the High Line 5th Annual Summer Party on the High Line on June 23, 2015. ©Patrick McMullan. Photo: Clint Spaulding/PatrickMcMullan.com. Every Thursday afternoon, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at
[email protected]. ADVERTISING INTERVIEW WITH THE ART HEIRESS Yesterday, the estate of the late collector Donald Marron shocked the art world (https://news.artnet.com/market/donald-marron-collection-pace-acquavella-gagosian-1781181) by turning down $300 million in guarantees from Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips respectively and making the virtually unprecedented decision to consign the financier’s massively important trove to a triumvirate of Manhattan dealer-kings: Larry Gagosian, Bill Acquavella, and the father-son duo Arne and Marc Glimcher at Pace. And while Marron was incredibly generous during his lifetime, giving $40 million to New York University and more than 500 works to the Museum of Modern Art (where he also served as board president), he left the rest of his collection—worth an estimated $450 million—to his family. That means the sale will be quite the windfall for his widow, Catie Marron, a Vogue contributing editor who runs Good Companies, a consultancy and community for fledgling non-profits, and the couple’s children: William Marron, who could often be seen leading his father around fairs and evening sales, and Serena Marron, an early Instagram influencer and New York socialite.