His taste line

Ulrich started his collection with Warhol's lithograph representing tree apples. His parents owned it when Ulrich was a child, then they sold the lithograph after their divorce. 


After a long chase, he finally bought it back. This experience might have been a trigger for him. Collecting  wasn’t based on the whim of a Rock star. It really was a personal initiative. 

He does not collect any painting but he follows a particular taste line. This is how the art auctioneer Brett Gorvy describes Ulrich’s particular taste: “His Danish roots drew him especially to the paintings of the CoBrA artists, an international group of painters working in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam in the early 1950s, who championed a primitive and highly expressionist art”. Ulrich is exclusively interested in contemporary artists and more particularly the primitivism movement which rejects the canon imposed by the occidental society. His favorite artist, and also the most represented in his collection, is Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) who was a graffiti artist whose style was very violent and energic. Violence is a recurrent theme in Ulrich’s collection. 


This is Jean-Michel Basquiat Profit 1. Ulrich sold it for 5,5 million $ in Christie 's Auction House in 2002
 

This is Basquiat's (Unknown) Boxer. It was Ulrich property until 2008





Jean Dubuffet's Paris Montparnasse, property Of Lars Ulrich