Art Market Minute
More Magritte Heads to Auction
Plus, Qatar accused of trying to buy work from South Africa's Venice Biennale pavilion. And a new fair launches in Mallorca.
Sonia Manalili &
Margaret Carrigan
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Christie’s has nabbed the estate of the late Belgian collecting power couple, Roger and Josette Vanthournout. More than 200 works will be offered by the auction house during its marquee March sales in London. Roughly a third of the collection is Surrealist and Dada works, among them René Magritte’s 1940 painting of a large leaf set amid a distant mountainscape, estimated at $4.7 million.
After the recent cancelation of its Venice Biennale pavilion that was to feature an artwork about violence in Gaza by Gabrielle Goliath, South Africa is laying blame for its surprise decision on Qatar, claiming that the Gulf nation sought to use the pavilion for “proxy power” by seeking to acquire the work.
And Art Cologne, one of the oldest and longest-running art fairs on the international circuit, has just announced 88 exhibitors for its revived Palma, Mallorca edition, launching April 9.
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