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The artist Jeff Koons in his Upper East Side home, which houses examples of his own collecting efforts.

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By RANDY KENNEDY

Published: February 24, 2010

JEFF KOONS, at 55, is one of the world’s most famous living artists. And every night before drifting off to sleep in his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he is able to survey the salmon-pink walls of his bedroom and commune with a small pantheon of the most famous artists of centuries past.

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Jeff Koons, far right, directing the installation of “Super Sister” by Liza Lou at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

In one corner hangs an early-16th-century painted bust of a hollow-cheeked, very tender-looking Jesus by Quentin Massys, the first important painter of the Antwerp school. Across the way, perhaps reflecting Mr. Koons’s love of mingling the sacred and the profane, a risqué Fragonard stares back, showing a young woman cradling a pair of puppies at her bared breasts. But for t