Frank Cohen
| Frank Cohen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 October 1943 |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Initial Access Dairy Art Centre |
| Spouse(s) | Cherryl Cohen (m. 1972) |
| Children | Son, Adam Daughter, Georgina |
| Website | http://initialaccess.co.uk |
Frank Cohen (born 15 October 1943) is a British entrepreneur, Art collector and Philanthropist.
He was born and raised in Manchester where he worked on a number of his own businesses before building up the ‘Home Improvement Company’ based in and around Manchester and then ‘GlynWebb Home Improvement Stores’, which was a large chain of Do It Yourself (DIY) stores in the North East, North West, Yorkshire, East Anglia, and the Midlands of the United Kingdom.
Cohen sold the business in 1997 and his passion for collecting art became his full-time occupation.
Cohen is the founder of Initialaccess Ltd which had an exhibition space in Wolverhampton, UK, and also the co-founder of Dairy Art Centre in London, UK.
Cohen grew up on the outskirts of Manchester and Salford. He has always been obsessed with collecting, however, it wasn’t until he met his wife Cherryl Cohen that his obsession with art began. Having come from an art involved family (Cherryl's father being an art dealer and was Chairman of the Fine Art Trade Guild) she was very much an influence upon Cohen's art collecting.
Cohen is one of the world's most influential and prolific collectors of British and international contemporary art. He began collecting Modern British art in the 1970s and in the early 1990s became a patron and supporter of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He also collected American and German art of the 1980s and 1990s, contemporary Japanese art (especially the Superflat movement) and more recently has added contemporary Chinese and Indian art to his interests. Every year he is listed in ARTnews magazine's list of ‘The World's Top 200 Collectors’ and is often referred to as the Medici of the North.
Among his most important works are pieces by Leon Kossoff, Stanley Spencer, Frank Auerbach, Patrick Heron, Howard Hodgkin, Bridget Riley, Barbara Hepworth, L.S. Lowry, William Roberts, Edward Burra, Richard Prince, Thomas Schutte, Damien Hirst, David Salle, David Hammons, Jean Dubuffet and Jim Dine.
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