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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
"There Is No Place Like London": Dealer Iwan Wirth on the Intricacies of the World's Second Biggest Art Market
by Coline Milliard
In 25 years, Swiss gallerist Iwan Wirth has gone from teenage enthusiast to one of the most powerful contemporary art dealers in the world. Hauser & Wirth, founded by Wirth ...
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
By Lindsay Pollock
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Hendrick Goltzius’ 1612 depiction of an erotic encounter between a voluptuous sleeping damsel and a satyr, once owned by Nazi Hermann Goering, fetched $6.8 million yesterday atSotheby’s in New York from an unidentified European collector who was bidding by phone.
The 6-foot-wide painting, “Jupiter and Antiope,” was ...
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
By Scott Reyburn
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, the stars of the art boom, were deposed as auction bestsellers in 2009 as prices for some of their works fell 50 percent. It may take much of the next decade before their works return to record prices, dealers ...
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