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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, December 13, 2012
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View of Art Basel Miami Beach booth of Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York Buyers Delight, Critics Waffle at 2012 Art Basel Miami Beach
Atlantic - December 12th, 2012 22:01
With $2 billion worth of art for sale from almost 260 exhibitors at last week's Art Basel Miami Beach alone, plus more than a dozen other concurrent fairs adding thousands more exhibitors, much modern and contemporary art has been admired and bought, but at least one critic finds the offered art...

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Edge of Zurich City of Zurich Loses 5,000 Artworks
Business Insider - December 12th, 2012 21:39
On Monday, Switzerland's largest city, Zurich, announced that 5,176 works of art from its collections are missing.

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Alexander Calder gouaches CALDERS LEAD GROGAN AND COMPANY'S DECEMBER AUCTION
Release Date: 12 December 2012
Dedham, MA:  On December 2nd, Grogan and Company, conducted their annual December auction to a standing room only crowd.  The over 500 lots of Fine Art, Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs from various estates and collections, achieved over $800,000.      ...

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William Baziotes, White Figure on Green, 1936-39 WILLIAM BAZIOTES, A CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, SURREALIST DRAWINGS OF THE 1930S
Release Date: 23 November 2012
William Baziotes: A Centennial Exhibition, Surrealist Drawings of the 1930s, is on view at the Susan Teller Gallery  through December 29, 2012. The work of William Baziotes generally combines Surrealism with an abstractionist aesthetic. The drawings in this show, however, are early, 1936 to ...

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Alexander III Imperial Russian Porcelain Plate, sold for $ 87,500 Rago's December 2012 Estates, Jewelry, Silver and Coin Auctions Bring the Year to a Close with $3 Million in Sales
Release Date: 12 December 2012
    Alexander III Imperial Russian porcelain plate sells for $87,500; pear-shaped diamond ring sells for $68,750; Russian silver desk set by Mikhail Ivanov sells for $18,750; Morgan silver dollar complete business strike set sells from $11,250.   Lambertville, NJ:   Rago Arts and Auction ...

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