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The major 2014 fall auctions showed once again that masterpieces were being sold at the highest rates thanks to the great appetite of buyers eager to collect art.

There are at least three dozens of collectors from the United States, Europe Asia and Latin America who are ready to pay huge sums at auction such as Leon Black, the owner of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management who bought in 2012 Edvard Munch's "The Scream" for 120 million USD and a drawing by Raphael Sanzio for 48 million in 2013, Andy Hall, the 63-year old chief  executive officer of Occidental Petroleum Corporation who has collected works by Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Jörg Immendorf, Eric Fischl, A.R Penck, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol or Malcolm Morley, Glenn Fuhrman, the hedge fund manager of MSD capital  board member of several U.S museums who has opened a gallery in Chelsea and who is reputedly one of the main Wall Street collectors, Sheikha Mayassa Al-Thani, a member of the ruling family in Qatar who has been active in buying works by Warhol, Damien Hirst and Mark Rothko at a rate of one billion USD a year, Eli Broad who has created a Foundation bearing his name in 1984 and who owns a collection of art worth more than 2,2 billion USD, Charles Saatchi, the cofounder rin 1970 of the advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi with his brother Maurice and the owner of the Saatchi gallery in London who has been promoting young British artists in the 1990s such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin or Chris Ofili, Rosa de la Cruz, a Cuban-born art collector who created with her husband Carlos a Contemporary art space in Miami, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros who has been collecting Latin American art with her husband Gustavo before founding the New York City and the Caracas-based Fundación Cisneros, a philanthropic organization, Donald and Mera Rubell who founded the Rubell family Foundation in 1964 in New York and whose huge collection includes works by Damien Hirst, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman  and Steve Cohen, the former hedge fund manager who gathered an impressive collection of Impressionist and contemporary art. In 2006 he paid 137.5 million USD for Willem de Kooning's "Woman III" (1952) and in 2013 he bought Picasso's "Le Rêve" for 155 million.