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Madonna on the Industry's Top 25 Art Collectors

She may have gotten her start traipsing the art underground, arm-in-arm with Basquiat, but her art collection began on a highbrow note: In 1987, she shelled out nearly $1 million for Fernand Leger's Les Deux Bicyclettes.    Since then, she has acquired more than 300 works, drawing from Modern masters -- Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Maxfield Parrish -- and the occasional contemporary one, a la Hirst. Fellow chameleon Frida Kahlo is a favorite, as is sultry portraitist Tamara de Lempicka. In 2000, Madonna paid $4.7 million for Pablo Picasso's Buste de Femme a la Frange, contributing to a 2008 appraisal of her collection of more than $100 million. In May 2013, she put up one of her Legers -- the 1921 Trois Femmes a la Table Rouge, picked up at Sotheby's for $3.4 million in 1990 -- for auction, pledging that profits would go toward girls education in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It went for $7.2 million. Source:   Hollywood Reporter

Liz Smith recently posted an article about Madonna on New York Social Diary!

She said... Madonna is the cover girl on Harper's Bazaar's ā€œThe Daring Issue.ā€  Well, of course she is. I used to hope that at a certain point Madonna would go all Dietrich on us. Stand in a misty spotlight in a glamorous, glittery gown, and sing some of her truly lovely ballads. (In the end, I think it will be her ballads, rather than her dance music, that will define her for future generations.) But this is not going to happen! And I suppose, certainly for Madonna, thatā€™s a good thing. Calming down would be like a little death for her. She has to be active, brassy and bold ā€” creative. (Even if weā€™re not quite sure what sheā€™s creating!) And while she can be hurt by words, she doesnā€™t dwell on those who donā€™t approve." She tells the magazine this, and I think it truly is Madonnaā€™s mantra for existing.  ā€œIf I canā€™t be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I donā€™t really see the point of being on this planet.ā€