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Palm Beach Tells a Story

February 9, 2010 by Marion Maneker

The American International Fine Art Fair in Palm Beach did some business last week. Sarah Douglas went to Florida for ArtInfo.com and got these sales:

  • Paris dealer Jacques Bailly sold a Jean Dufy painting, Avenue Foch, for a price in the mid-six figures on opening night.
  • New York dealer Lawrence Steigrad sold a large painting, Temptation, by Swedish artist Bernhard Osterman (1870-1938), that had an asking price of $225,000.
  • Munich’s Galerie Terminus, was Fernando Botero’s large painting The Card Players, 1989, priced at $2.25 million, which a collector put on reserve on opening night. […] Grusdat quickly sold a bronze sculpture by Dietriche Klinge, Kopf Wonnebi, 2006, for $15,750, and a painting by Heiner Meyer, Capri Fisher, 2009, for $14,250. […] Two of his Tony Cragg sculptures were swiftly put on hold, one for $450,000 and another, positioned just outside the fair’s VIP lounge, for $390,000;
  • Among other artworks, [Michael] Goedhuis sold a work on paper by Qin Feng, West Wind East Water, 2008, for $75,000.

The Palm Beach Post tallies up a few of the transactions too:

  • Clay Surovek, of the Surovek Gallery of Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, said he was enjoying a successful fair, which had more than 80 dealers participating from the U.S. and Europe. He had not only sold the Wyeth [“Winter Carnival,” by Andrew Wyeth ($750,000)], but he had also moved two paintings by living American artist Stephen Scott Young for $250,000 and $90,000.
  • The Richard Green Gallery of London also reported the sale of Eugene von Blaas’ “Conversation on the Terrace, Venice,” for $1 million.

With Airier Aisles, the Palm Beach Art Fair Scores (ArtInfo.com)

International art fair in Palm Beach County reporting increased attendance, sales (Palm Beach Post)

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