Leon Black

Leon Black ( born 1951 ) is an American entrepreneur and art collector.

Family

Black comes from a Jewish family. His father was the U.S. investment dealer Elihu Menashe Black and his mother was the artist Shirley Lubell.

Life

Black studied philosophy and history at Dartmouth College and business administration at Harvard University. In 1990 he founded the firm Apollo Global Management. He is sitting on supervisory boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art

The pastel version of The Scream from 1895 was sold at auction May 2, 2012 at a Sotheby's auction in New York for 119 922 500 U.S. dollars to Leon Black. That was the hitherto highest price at auction for a work of art.

Black is married and has four children.