The talk during New York's
auction season last month was of collectors from Asia, but Asian collectors, and particularly the Chinese, didn't seem to be such a notable presence in Basel today, based on what we heard.
Not exact matches
Fellow IndyCar driver Graham Rahal spearheaded the
auction that begins Sept. 14 with helmets donated by the competitors in the
season finale IndyCar race
last month in Sonoma.
Helena Newman, the worldwide co-head of Impressionist and Modern Art for Sotheby's, had presided over the first sale of the spring
season in London
last week, bringing $ 63.7 million for Picasso's «Femme Assise» (1909), the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at
auction.
But this
season's museum shows and
last season's
auction results aren't enough to justify (for most people, at least), spending more than a million dollars on a square piece of canvas.
The fair comes on the heels of a record - setting
season in New York, where
auction houses sold $ 2.2 billion of modern, Impressionist, postwar and contemporary art
last month.