Early life Guy Ullens was born in San Francisco, California  as the third child to Baron Jean Marie Joseph Anne Mathilde Alphonse Ullens de Schooten Whettnall (1897–1950), a Belgian diplomat, and a member of the noble family of the Southern Netherlands. His mother was ethnographic photographer, writer, and Royal Geographical Society fellow, Baroness Marie Thérèse Pauline Francis Ullens de Schooten Whettnall née Wittouck (1905–89), of the Belgium noble family , a daughter of distilling and sugar magnate , who together with his brothers and Paul Wittouck owned the Sugar refinery of Tienen. Education  career After a degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium  in 1958, Ullens obtained an MBA at Stanford University in 1960. He started Eurocan in Mechelen, Belgium, a company that specialized in the manufacture of metal packagings for preserved foods and beverages. In October 2013, Sotheby's Hong Kong at the Asian Contemporary 40th Anniversary Sale, Ullens put up for sale Chen Yifei's political realist work Red Flag 1 (1971), and The Last Supper (2001) by contemporary Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi. The Last Supper was sold for US $23.3 million, setting a new record for contemporary Asian artwork. In 2016, Ullens, now in his 80s, announced that he was looking to hand over the UCCA and would sell his art collection at auction. On the 11th of February 2017, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art received the 2016 Global Fine Art Awards for Best Contemporary / Postwar / SoloArtist “Rauschenberg in China”. Personal life Ullens married Micheline Franckx (1932–2015) in 1955. They had four children, and divorced in 1999. In 1999, Ullens married Myriam "Mimi" Lechien (born 1952), a Belgian entrepreneur. Ullens is a yachtsman, and owns the 170 ft (51.77 m) long flybridge aluminium sloop Red Dragon II with interior design by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Build by Alloy Yachts in New Zealand in 2007 and commissioned in 2008, the yacht was put up for sale for US$ 28 million in 2015.
Early life Guy Ullens was born in San Francisco, California , as the third child to Baron Jean Marie Joseph Anne Mathilde Alphonse Ullens de Schooten Whettnall (1897–1950), a Belgian diplomat, and a member of the noble family of the Southern Netherlands. His mother was ethnographic photographer, writer, and Royal Geographical Society fellow, Baroness Marie Thérèse Pauline Francis Ullens de Schooten Whettnall née Wittouck (1905–89), of the Belgium noble family , a daughter of distilling and sugar magnate , who together with his brothers and Paul Wittouck owned the Sugar refinery of Tienen. Education and career After a degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium , in 1958, Ullens obtained an MBA at Stanford University in 1960. He started Eurocan in Mechelen, Belgium, a company that specialized in the manufacture of metal packagings for preserved foods and beverages. In October 2013, Sotheby's Hong Kong at the Asian Contemporary 40th Anniversary Sale, Ullens put up for sale Chen Yifei's political realist work Red Flag 1 (1971), and The Last Supper (2001) by contemporary Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi. The Last Supper was sold for US $23.3 million, setting a new record for contemporary Asian artwork. In 2016, Ullens, now in his 80s, announced that he was looking to hand over the UCCA and would sell his art collection at auction. On 11 February 2017, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art received the 2016 Global Fine Art Awards for Best Contemporary / Postwar / SoloArtist “Rauschenberg in China”. Personal life Ullens married Micheline Franckx (1932–2015) in 1955. They had four children, and divorced in 1999. In 1999, Ullens married Myriam "Mimi" Lechien (born 1952), a Belgian entrepreneur. Ullens is a yachtsman, and owns the 170 ft (51.77 m) long flybridge aluminium sloop Red Dragon II with interior design by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Build by Alloy Yachts in New Zealand in 2007 and commissioned in 2008, the yacht was put up for sale for US$ 28 million in 2015.
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$23.3 million, setting a new record for contemporary Asian artwork. In 2016, Ullens, now in his 80s, announced that he was looking to hand over the UCCA and would sell his art collection at auction. On the 11th of February 2017, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art received the 2016 Global Fine Art Awards for Best Contemporary / Postwar / SoloArtist “Rauschenberg in China”. Personal life Ullens married Micheline Franckx (1932–2015) in 1955. They had four children, and divorced in 1999. In 1999, Ullens married Myriam "Mimi" Lechien (born 1952), a Belgian entrepreneur. Ullens is a yachtsman, and owns the 170 ft (51.77 m) long flybridge aluminium sloop Red Dragon II with interior design by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Build by Alloy Yachts in New Zealand in 2007 and commissioned in 2008, the yacht was put up for sale for US$
$23.3 million, setting a new record for contemporary Asian artwork. In 2016, Ullens, now in his 80s, announced that he was looking to hand over the UCCA and would sell his art collection at auction. On 11 February 2017, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art received the 2016 Global Fine Art Awards for Best Contemporary / Postwar / SoloArtist “Rauschenberg in China”. Personal life Ullens married Micheline Franckx (1932–2015) in 1955. They had four children, and divorced in 1999. In 1999, Ullens married Myriam "Mimi" Lechien (born 1952), a Belgian entrepreneur. Ullens is a yachtsman, and owns the 170 ft (51.77 m) long flybridge aluminium sloop Red Dragon II with interior design by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Build by Alloy Yachts in New Zealand in 2007 and commissioned in 2008, the yacht was put up for sale for US$