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Fischli-&-Weiss_Snowman_1990
Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Snowman, 1990. Photograph. Study for Kunstprojekte Heizkraftwerk Romerbrucke, Saarbrucken. Copyright: Peter Fischli / David Weiss. Courtesy the artists; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Cologne/Munich/London; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Image via potz!blitz!szpilman!

Season’s Greetings!

M-KOS would like to wish everyone a festive holiday season.

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Art market
One of four versions of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream, (pastel, 1895) fetched $119,9M (Sale price $107M + the buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s New York on 2 May, a record for auction history. The sale was dominated by two telephone bidders, over a tense ten minutes period. Sotherby’s auctioneer Tobias Meyer was caught exclaiming “I love you!” to one phone bidder when prices soared up to $106M. You can watch an excerpt here. We are all curious to know who won the bidding match for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. Petter Olsen, the seller of the painting personally hoped the bidding winner to be MoMA NY…
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