What’s One Museum Work the Top 200 Collectors Would Own If They Could?
06-10-2026 14:00 via artnews.com

What’s One Museum Work the Top 200 Collectors Would Own If They Could?

The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors are among the world’s most voracious art buyers, many of them obsessed with adding works to their collections long after the walls of their homes can accommodate their purchases.There are, however, limits to what they can buy—not everything is available. As part of our annual questionnaire to the Top 200, we asked the collectors if there was one artwork held by a museum that they would own if they could, what would it be. (For the record, we did ask the
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