ART MARKET WATCH


Nov. 11, 2009

Art market insiders said that Connecticut horse farmer Peter Brant wanted too much for his prize Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat works in the Christie’s New York evening sale of contemporary art on Nov. 10, 2009, and they were right. While Brant watched from a darkened skybox, and his art-market pals sat on their hands, both star lots passed with nary a bid.

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