ONLY ABOUT TWO DOZEN PAINT-ings in the world are known to have sold for more than $100 million each. Of those, at least seven were purchased by men who made their fortunes in asset management. The most expensive acquisition may be one made by Ken Griffin, founderand chief executive officer of alternative investment manager Citadel. In September 2015, the then-46-year-old hedge fund billionaire paid $500 million for two abstract expressionist works: Interchange, by Willem de Kooning, and Numberl7A, by Jackson Pol-lock,according to The New York Times. The de Kooning piece, bought for about $300 million, is widely regarded as the priciest painting ever sold-or is, at the very least, tied for first with the post-impressionist " When Will You Marry?" by Paul Gauguin, according to the Guinness World Records.
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