Until he sold off three paintings for a combined $283 million this fall, many outside the art world were probably unaware of Hollywood mogul David Geffen’s status as a major collector. But “insiders have [long] acknowledged Geffen’s inventory as one of the largely unseen wonders of the contemporary art world… To those who have watched Geffen quietly amass paintings by Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning, these sales make a lot of sense.”