Swiss billionaire Maja Hoffmann, private museum founder Udo Brandhorst from Munich, Robbie and Daniella Antonio from Manila, Freda and Izak Uziyel from London, Slovenian millionaire investor Igor Lah, and Brussels private museum owner Walter Vanhaerents.
The fair was also teeming with museum directors and curators.Art Basel is the kind of place where you would expect to find $20m plus artworks, but this year, they were few and far between. “The sweet spot here is between $500,000 and $5m”, explained Brett Gorvy, who has galleries in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.
Just creeping into that bracket was his sale of Jet Blue, a reclining female bedecked in rhinestones by in demand African American artist, Mickalene Thomas, whom the.
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