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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, June 20, 2011

Galleria Massimo Minini showed Anish Kapoor's Push – Pull, 2008

Basel buyers bring back art boom
Bloomberg - June 20th, 2011 03:13

Top-dollar works by Mark Rothko, Maurizio Cattelan, and Anish Kapoor were among the sales from Art Basel's $1.7 billion worth of 20th-21st century art. The annual Swiss pilgrimage of art world VIPs closed with exhibitors comparing the five-day fair to the pre-2008 art boom. According to Bloomberg, anonymous dealers stated Gagosian sold $45 million of art in the first 15 minutes of the fair, including Cattelan's "Frank and Jamie," a wax work of two upside-down New York policemen, for a ...

Marilyn Monroe wearing the iconic dress with its skirt billowing over a subway grate in the 1954 film The Seven Year Itch.

Iconic Marilyn Monroe dress snags $4.6 million at auction

Marilyn Monroe's ivory, pleated ‘subway’ dress from "The Seven-Year Itch" swelled above its presale estimate of $1-2 million to fetch $4.6 million at a weekend auction in Beverly ...

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	From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania at Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam Release Date: 17 June 2011 A magnificent survey exhibition of Jewish avant-garde artists from Romania is on view at the Jewish Historical Museum (JHM): From Dada to Surrealism, with more than seventy works of art from the period 1910-1938. Most of these works have never been on display before in the Netherlands, or ... Read more

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