Top art dealer Larry Gagosian (left) is set to be the subject of an unauthorized documentary directed by Barry Avrich (right). There’s an unauthorized documentary on top art dealer Larry Gagosian in the works, Page Six Hollywood has learned.
Barry Avrich — the director behind the hit Netflix doc “Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art” — is training his lens on mega-gallerist Gagosian.
Avirich, who was also behind the art doc “Blurred Lines” — following blue-chip artists such as Damien Hirst, Marina Abramović and Rashid Johnson — is now prepping the “deep dive doc on the elusive gallery titan,” sources say.
(L-R) Tom Hanks, Chris Paul, Jada Crawley Paul, Rita Wilson and Larry Gagosian attend LACMA’s Opening Gala for The David Geffen Galleries at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on April 16, 2026. Getty Images for LACMA It has the ominous-sounding title, “Shadow Man: Inside The Secret World of Larry Gagosian,” and we’re told that, “former employees and artists are lining up to tell their juicy Larry stories and scoop on the inner workings of the Gagosian empire.”
A rep for the gallery was unaware of the doc on Wednesday. (And a Gagosian insider exclaimed, “What?”) We imagine that Gagosian may be working the phones today to see who’s talkin’ for the film.
Avrich has directed docs on subjects including Hollywood legend Lew Wasserman, composer David Foster, disgraced distributor Harvey Weinstein, comics David Steinberg and Howie Mandel, jazz icon Oscar Peterson and more.
Gagosian, who regularly rubs elbows with stars from Mick Jagger to Leo DiCaprio and has a client list including David Geffen, Steve Cohen and Leon Black opened his first art space in LA in 1980, and now has 18 glamorous galleries around the world.
Barry Avrich speaks during the Los Angeles book launch party for his “Moguls, Monsters And Madmen” on October 20, 2016. Getty Images His stable of artists includes Hirst as well as a list way too long to mention here, including John Currin, Urs Fischer, Theaster Gates, Mark Grotjahn, Sally Mann, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Taryn Simon, Rudolf Stingel, Jeff Wall, Mary Weatherford, Jonas Wood and many more.
Gagosian told Cultured in 2021: “People see me as a hard-charging, aggressive, business-oriented, money-oriented person. And it’s all true. But I really love art. I really love working with artists. My favorite day is going to artist studios. Maybe people don’t see that, but that’s OK.”
A New Yorker profile in 2023 pointed out: “The dealer has been so successful selling art to masters of the universe that he has become one of them,” and, “Gagosian is not a household name for most Americans, but among the famous and the wealthy — and particularly among the very wealthy — he is a figure of colossal repute.”
