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In a Buyer’s Market, Treading Water Can Be a Success

The dealer buying continued in London last night at Sotheby’s where Per Skarstedt bought an important Albert Oehlen self portrait for £6.2m; Andrew Fabricant bought a Christopher Wool and two Stingels (one at Sotheby’s and a second today at Phillips); Timothy Taylor bought a Jenny Saville painting. That last one might have been for a client but the overall tenor of the sales was the trade taking advantage of opportunities. Colin Gleadell (whom we failed to give credit to last week for identifying Robert Wylde as the Surrealist collector featured at Christie’s) makes the point that the swing bidding with the biggest effect was from collectors from the Middle East. He also points out the Oehlen market has finally broken open after several years of dealers promoting his work: