25 Celebrities With Baller Art Collections

By Emily Leiz Carr

We know all too much about celebrities, from what they wore today, to what they had for lunch, to who they slept with and how.

But as much as these minute, personal details feel like they're part of our daily lives and common knowledge, there are other things we don't see and don't really think about — the things that don't show up as often on TMZ or Cribs. When a Birkin bag, a summer home in the Hamptons, or an Aston Martin are mere pocket change, what can you do with the bigger bills?

For the following people, one answer is "buy art." Here's our roundup of 25 Celebrities With Baller Art Collections.

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Day job: Film maker

Collects: American Illustration

Collection includes: Norman Rockwell

Fun fact: George Lucas and fellow director Steven Spielberg lent their Norman Rockwell pieces for an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Day job: Owner of the other half of the Sunset Strip, owner of Ultimate Fighting Championship, owner of Gordon Biersch brewery

Collects: Contemporary

Collection includes: James Rosenquist, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michele Basquiat, Robert Indiana, Takashi Murakami, Vik Muniz, Paul McCarthy

Fun fact: The gamblin', fightin', beer-drinkin' man has a softer side and a lot of hard cash when it comes to collecting. Some of his spoils can be seen at his various casinos — others adorn his homes and offices — which supposedly display Warhol and Basquiat paintings of fighters. Apropos!

Day job: Actor

Collects: Contemporary sculpture

Collection includes: Roxy Paine

Fun fact: Kilmer is rumored to be working toward turning his huge New Mexico property into a sculpture park.

Day job: Goddess

Collects: African and African-American art

Collection includes: Faith Ringgold

Fun fact: Oprah served alongside Vogue's Anna Wintour as co-chair of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala in 2010.

Day job: Art collector, movie producer, former Warhol Superstar

Collects: Contemporary, and lots of it

Collection includes: Franz West, Jenny Holzer, Elizabeth Peyton, Sylvie Fleury, Anselm Reyle, Jonathan Seliger, Christopher Wool, Tom Sachs, Rucolf Stingel, Keith Haring, Jean Michele Basquiat, Nan Goldin,Piotr Uklanski, Ugo Rondinone, Marilyn Minter, Andreas Hofer, Tom Wesselman, Fischli and Weiss, Mike Kelly, and of course Andy Warhol

At this point, she is mostly a full-time art collector from her Palm Springs estate.

Day job: Director, sparkling wine in a can

Collects: Contemporary

Collection includes: Hugo Markl, Anne-Laure Sacriste

She's hot, too.

Day job: Painter, brother of Run & Russell Simmons

Collects: African art, American ephemera, comic books

Between his collections and his own work, his home and studio in Clinton Hill looks like an old-fashioned Wumderkammer.

Day job: Actor

Collects: Well... I wouldn't call him a collector, but he once bought a $2 million dollar Warhol picture of Elizabeth Taylor while drunk‚ andthen turned around and auctioned it off for a tidy $8 million. Not too shabby.

Collection includes: Formerly, one Warhol

Fun fact: Hugh manages the work of his late father, James Grant, who was a painter.

Day job: Actors, adopters

Collects: Contemporary art, modern & contemporary design

Collection includes: Neo Rauch, Yayoi Kusama, Marcel Dzama, Banksy

Fun fact: Brad is really the collector — Angelina thinks the money would be better spent on charity.

Day job: Singer, actress (We suppose)

Collects: Contemporary & modern, with a penchant for female artists

Collection includes: Frida Kahlo, Tamara de Lempicka, Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso, Damien Hirst, Man Ray

Fun fact: In 2009, her art collection was valued at $160 million.

Day job: Singer, songwriter

Collects: Masterworks

Collection includes: Balthus, Rubens, Tintoretto, Graham Sutherland, Stanley Spencer

The sparkle and glitz of glam rock take some time off in his art collection- rather, he goes for much older and moodier work. Bonus: Bowie is also a painter on the side!

Day job: Actor, former child doctor (poor guy will never, ever live that role down)

Collects: Contemporary art & kitschy Americana

Collection includes: Andrew Sendor, Tony Payne, Darina Karpov

Fun fact: Harris has opened his home and collection several times to help raise funds to support the Museum of Contemporary Art in his hometown of Los Angeles.

Day job: Fashion designer

Collects: Contemporary

Collection includes: Mike Kelly, Karen Kilimnik, Roy Lichtenstein, John Currin, Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince, Elizabeth Peyton

Marc is the president of good taste with a slight edge.

Day job: Peter Parker, Night job: Spiderman

Collects: Contemporary

Collection includes: Mark Ryden, John Baldessari, Kaz Oshiro

Fun fact: A few years ago Maguire successfully bid on a drawing by Mark Ryden at MoCA’s annual FRESH silent auction fundraiser.

Day job: Comedian, novelist,

Collects: Modern masters

Collection includes: Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cy Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, Eric Fishl

Fun fact: In recent years he's become quite an outspoken advocate for the arts, and even published a novel, An Object of Beauty, with an art-historical bent to it.

Day job: Singer, songwriter, pianist

Collects: Modern & Contemporary

Collection includes: Sam Taylor-Wood, Francis Bacon, Nan Goldin, Julian Schnabel, Lucas Samras, Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, David Hockney

This man's collection is just too good.

Day job: Singer, reality TV talent judge

Collects: Graffiti & Street art

Collection includes: Banksy, D* Face

There is something rather satisfying about the image a former Mouseketeer and the voice of Mulan spending her Disney dollars on a Banksy. We particularly like to imagine her purchasing the piece that depicts Mickey smiling as he runs besides the Napalm girl.

Day job: Comedian, actor

Collects: Chicano art

Collection includes: Ester Hernández, Carmen Lomas Garza, Carlos Almaraz, Frank Romero, Gronk, Patssi Valdez, George Yepes, Rupert García, Leo Limon, Margaret García, Elroy Torrez

We may all have assumed that Cheech would just collect bongs (glass art?)... Goes to show what assuming does.

Day job: Owner of the Sunset Strip

Collects: Everyone you need to know for an Art History 101 midterm exam

Collection includes: Monet, Manet, Renoir, Picasso, Pollock, de Kooning

Fun fact: Even in these difficult economic times, the value of Wynn's art collection has kept his high ranking on the Forbes 500 list.

Day job: Retired tennis player, gallerist

Collects: Contemporary American art

Collection includes: Alice Neel, Eric Fishl, Ed Ruscha, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Neil Jenney

Fun fact: Poor guy lost $2 million in 2009 in a major scam by former art dealer Lawrence Salander, who sold the same painting to McEnroe and another collector, though neither ever saw the real thing. Salander is now spending 6-18 years in prison for it; McEnroe, on the other hand, owns a gallery in SoHo.

Day job: NBA player for the Phoenix Suns (or, potentially soon-to-be unemployed)

Collects: Modern African-American art

Collection includes: Elizabeth Catlett, Edward Jackson, John Biggers, Phoebe Beasely

Fun fact: Hill houses one of the premier private collections of African-American art.

Day job: Artist

Collects: contemporary

Collection includes: Sarah Lucas, John Currin, Richard Prince, Francis Bacon, Jim Lambie, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons

Hirst's collection is a show of great wealth and good sportsmanship.

Day job: Rapper, producer

Collects: Contemporary

Collection includes: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, J.S.G. Boggs

Fun fact: Swizz is a part-time painter himself, whose style carries some clear influences from those in his collection.

Day job: Rapper, producer, not a businessman but a business, man.

Collection type: Contemporary

Collection includes: Andy Warhol, Tim Noble, Sue Simmons, Ed Ruscha, David Hammons, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Paul Pfeiffer, Laurie Simmons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso

Fun fact: Jay owns a piece by Hirst called "Beat Life and Cheat Death," named after lyrics from his own track, "Pray" (This is why I be so fresh, I'm trying to beat life, 'cause I can't cheat death).