”Her name is Madonna and she’s going to be huge”

“Her name is Madonna and she’s going to be huge…”

Larry Gagosian, the American art dealer who owns the legendary Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries, recalls with Interview what his artist-client Jean-Michel Basquiat told him about his girlfriend Madonna, who Basquiat dragged along when he came to live with Gagosian in LA at the time.

“So Madonna came out and stayed for a few months and we all got along like one big, happy family…” Gagosian also tells the magazine. “I lost my license at one point and Madonna actually became our driver for a while.”

“Madonna drove us around! But she was no joke. Even then you could see the discipline and focus and ambition. She’d go running every morning. She’d do yoga. She’d be on the phone with her people. You got the sense she was serious. I wouldn’t say that we’re really friends anymore, but whenever I see her, we have this nice history.”