The 10-day Dutch art fair Tefaf attracted 72,500 visitors, an increase of 7 percent on 2009, say the organizers. Most were white, middle-aged Americans and Europeans, and they were in a buying mood.

Middle market sales were soft, but the seven-figure sales soared. For example, Basquiat’s 1982 painting “Busted Atlas 2” was bought by a German collector for $2.4 million from New York gallery Van de Weghe Fine Art. A 1967 Rothko oil-on-paper abstract, “Untitled (Red, White, Orange),” offered by London-based Lefevre Fine Art, reportedly sold in the $3 million vicinity.

A 1534 painting of “David and Bathsheba,” by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, at Bernheimer-Colnaghi, went to a European collector. The asking price was 5.3 million euros.