Spanish Dealers Strike Over 21% Tax on Art-and More Art Industry News
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Spanish Dealers Strike Over 21% Tax on Art-and More Art Industry News
"- Outsider Art Fair has announced 68 exhibitors for its 34th edition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Pavilion this March 19-22. First-timers include Gagné Contemporary (Toronto), Embajada (San Juan), and Nanjing Outsider Art Center. - A long-lost Renaissance portrait has resurfaced at the Winter Show at New York's Park Avenue Armory. The portrait of a preacher by Sofonisba Anguissola can be found on the booth of Old Master dealer Robert Simon. ( Artnet News)"
"- Safeya Binzagr's Coffee Shop on Madina Road (1968) sold for $2 million with fees at Sotheby's second live auction in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, setting a new auction record for a Saudi artist. The sale brought in a total of $19.5 million across 61 lots, exceeding its $17.6 million presale high estimate, a 12.7 percent increase on the same sale last year, despite a slightly smaller offering. ( Artnet News)"
Outsider Art Fair will present 68 exhibitors at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion, including first-time participants from Toronto, San Juan, and Nanjing. A long-lost Renaissance portrait of a preacher by Sofonisba Anguissola appeared at the Winter Show on Old Master dealer Robert Simon’s booth. Christie's New York will sell the estate of collector and MoMA trustee Barbara Jakobson, featuring works by Ed Ruscha, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom Sachs, and Jeff Koons’s Winter Bears (1988), estimated at $3.8–5 million. At Sotheby's second live auction in Saudi Arabia, Safeya Binzagr's Coffee Shop on Madina Road (1968) sold for $2 million, setting a record for a Saudi artist and helping the sale reach $19.5 million. Around 200 Spanish dealers are striking to protest a 21 percent art sales tax ahead of ARCO Madrid.
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