Each year, the business magazine Forbes lists the world's top billionaires - New York - listed top art collectors of world in 2002 - Brief Article

Each year, the business magazine Forbes lists the world's top billionaires. This year, the magazine decided to list the world's top art collectors as well. The Art Newspaper did a certain quantity of more digging and found that of the 497 billionaires listed in Forbes, 36 are major art collectors. At the top of the list are Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, who is worth $528 billion and is a collector of 19th-century paintings and rare books; Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, who is worth $252 billion and is a collector of advanced in years Masters and Impressionism; Kenneth Thomson a newspaper and financial data business emperor of japan who is worth $14.9 billion and is a collector of Medieval and Renaissance art; and Carlos Slim Helu, the richest man in Latin America, who is worth $115 billion and is a collector of Rodin. The Art Newspaper rest that the majority of collectors opt for recent and contemporary art.

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