Also sold is Sycomore Ancient Art���s large wooden statue of a
high ranking Egyptian official dating from 2570-2350 BC to a
German museum for well over ��1 million.��
London design dealership Based Upon with bespoke artworks
and sculptural furniture, completed sales for their Table /
Twist / Mini sculpted table and a bespoke engraved bronze
screen depicting an urban landscape entitled Remembering
Knightsbridge for ��200,000. American participant Geoffrey
Diner sold Sir Marc Newson���s 1990 Lockheed Lounge in riveted
aluminum to a Swiss client for over $2 million.
Middle East and Russian clients eyed the London Koopman
Rare Art���s ��3 million display of silver gilt vessels and trays dating
from 1700-1850. ���Silver gilt was designed for the super rich
of its time like English royals,��� says Lewis Smith, Koopman
director. Apparently, silver gilt is right in sync with today���s taste.
Other lavish objects and furnishings on display are a ��95,000
silver and silver gilt chess set with the London gallery Theo
Fennell.
Gagosian Gallery with 11 galleries worldwide features Damien
Hirst���s 2008 Saint Bartholomew: Exquisite Pain in gold plated
silver for the first time ever.
Prices for art are in the high range. At Trinity House Gallery,
with three different galleries including one in the former
Pucci mansion off Madison Avenue, is the fair���s most pricey
painting: a John Singer Sargent 1906 Marionettes oil for ��6
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