Besides working with dealers during the acquisition drive, he called on several artists whose work he hoped to buy for the museum.
By focusing on criminal conduct by scofflaw dealers and criminals' acquisition of guns, she found a middle ground between gun-control advocates and the rifle association that has broad political appeal.
Arguably, Kissel's first acquisition as a dealer who could sniff out the profit in failure happened a year earlier, when he married Nancy, artist manqué; and college dropout, a clubbing-till-dawn waitress he had met on a nude beach in the Caribbean.
Should the asking figure still prove to be too much for an institutional budget it is not unknown for a collector of the said artist to be brought in by the dealer to help "fund the acquisition".
Still, Coinbase has made moves to add security tokens to its portfolio with the acquisition of a securities dealer earlier this year.
The year's five best books in the genre show how owners have traveled, researched and bought obsessively, and pressed dealers for background information on every acquisition.
Guided at first by the painter William Glackens, a childhood friend, Barnes developed an acquisition network of artists, dealers, and agents in Europe.
McSherry served as CEO of its New York and London-based broker dealers for two years following its acquisition.
With his $10 million stake in K12 Inc., Milken aided one of his Vice Presidents and another junk dealer, Ron Packard, who specialized in mergers and acquisitions for Goldman Sachs back in the '80s.
The money is the Whitney's to use on anything it wants — except for acquisitions, because, as Casey Kaplan, the Chelsea dealer who has spearheaded New York Gallery Week, said, "That would be self-serving and against what this is all about".
