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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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 | Highlights: American International Fine Art Fair
ARTFIXdaily - February 2nd, 2010 05:39
The second year of David Lester's glamorous, revamped American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF), from February 3-8, 2010, takes place at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Now considered the “crown jewel” of American art fairs, AIFAF is the only American art and antiques fair rated 5 stars by The Art Newspaper. View the photo gallery of highlights from several of the international dealers presenting paintings, sculpture, jewelry, antiques, contemporary design and ...Read more | |
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 | Computer maker CEO Dell buys $100 million photo archive
Bloomberg - February 2nd, 2010 04:37
Billionaire Michael Dell’s investment firm, MSD Capital LP, has acquired about 185,000 vintage photographic prints from the Magnum Photos agency in what is thought to be among the largest photo transactions in history. While no price was disclosed, the collection has been insured for more than $100 million. The photos will be loaned for five years to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin.Read more | |
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 | Hong Kong auction of stamps tallies $HK57 million
BusinessWeek - February 1st, 2010 17:54
A rare Chinese stamp from 1897 sold for HK$4.8 million ($617,959, exlcuding 15% fees) to an Asian bidder, setting a record price for a single Chinese stamp at auction. The “Small One Dollar” is one of only 32 recorded copies featuring a one-dollar overprint on a stamp with a face value of three cents. Interasia Auctions Ltd said the market has “taken a very big jump in the last year.”Read more | |
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 | Chinese may be the next big buyers of Impressionists
Wall Street Journal - February 2nd, 2010 05:04
Experts say Chinese collectors may emerge as the latest power players to bid up Western icons they once ignored. Until recently, Asians have fixated on collecting their own cultural heritage. Now, with a new season of major Impressionist and Modern art auctions just begun, an influx of collectors from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are branching out to seek artists from the 20th century Western canon, such as Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Edgar Degas.Read more | |
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