The Daredevil of the Auction World
Rebecca Mead on the man curating the auction house’s themed sales, like “Bound to Fail” and “If I Live I’ll See You Tuesday.”
"I said, 'I don't know.' And he said, 'I don't know.' So we just decided to wing it." — Loïc Gouzer, Christie's auction daredevil, on how he and a consigner priced a work by Mike Kelley featuring a lurid Devil with a distended scrotum.