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Steve Wynn Paid $33.7 Million For Jeff Koons' Gigantic 'Tulips' Sculpture

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Jeff Koons' giant steel sculpture "Tulips" sold to an anonymous buyer for $33.7 million during Christie's post-war and contemporary art sale last fall.

It turns out the buyer was hotel mogul Steve Wynn, who unveiled the three-ton sculpture in the rotunda of the Wynn Theater in Las Vegas last week, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Wynn is a prolific art collector. He was rumored to have spent $40 million on Dale Chiluly's glass-blown masterpiece "Fiori di Como, which hangs from the ceiling of the lobby at the Bellagio, and spent a record $12.8 million on a pair of Chinese vases to display in his Macau resort.

He also notoriously put his elbow through Picasso's "Le Rêve," for which he paid around $60 million.

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Courtesy of Christie's

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Julie Zeveloff West is Director of Editorial Product Strategy at Business Insider. She was previously Chief of Staff to Business Insider's editor-in-chief.Julie was the editor-in-chief of the Life division, where she oversaw Business Insider's entertainment, health, food, travel, style, parenting, and digital culture coverage. She was also a Deputy Editor for the site's business section, where she oversaw the lifestyle, transportation, retail, education, and lists & rankings sections, as well as its social media and graphic design teams. Before joining Business Insider in 2010, she was a reporter at Law360, where she covered international trade.In 2019, she was chosen as one of the Folio: Top Women in Media honorees in the Up and Comers category. Julie graduated from Cornell University and holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.