What’s the matter with charity auctions? Well, they attract buyers like Stewart Rahr who stood in the back of Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour sale bidding on anything that moved. See the cover lot Longo among the pictures accompanying this sad profile of the pharmaceutical distributor’s post liquidity event life:
Past the hallway with Picasso, Miro and Koons on the high floor of the Trump Park Avenue apartment building, you’ll find a sparse, cream-colored room with knockout Manhattan-skyline views that Rahr implies gets a lot of visitors. He calls it the “panty dropper.” You can learn a lot about someone by looking around his bedroom.
Above his king bed’s leather headboard Rahr shows off his most recent art acquisition, a painting depicting a reclined nude woman, those signature yellow sunglasses in hand, “Rah Rah Forever Young!” scrawled across her yellow skin, Basquiat-style.
