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Art Basel Miami Beach concludes with "solid" sales.

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By Pablo Tonini. Correspondent

Miami, Dec. 10 (Notimex).- The seventeenth edition of the Art Basel Fair in Miami Beach, the most important contemporary art exhibition in America, concluded with "solid" and "consistent" million dollar sales at all levels of the market, the organizers informed.

The fair, whose main partner is the Swiss financial group UBS, attracted 83 thousand people this year in the five days of the exhibition, including influential collectors, directors, curators, trustees and high-level sponsors of more than 200 leading international and cultural museums.

The exhibition housed 268 first-rate galleries from 35 countries, ranging from modern masterpieces to contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, paper and film, some of which were created specifically for the fair.

Representatives from all over America of important museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Museum of Modern Art in Medellin (Colombia), and the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, were present, among others, during the five-day duration of the fair.

At least one early sale reached eight figures. The gallery Van de Weghe sold a portrait of Picasso, Tete de Femme (1971), which was quoted at 17 million dollars, in the first hours, as reported by the specialized site ArtNet.News.

Hauser amp; Wirth sold a new Mark Bradford painting to a collector who promised it to an American institution for a list price of five million dollars and a "Shoe...

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