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Market: Classic, Yet Contemporary

By: John Dorfman

February 2008

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A fresh-to-the-market Toulouse-Lautrec will be the star item at the booth of New York prints and drawings dealer David Tunick. He recently found the 1896 lithograph, which depicts a female clown in typically vibrant colors, in the Westchester house where it had resided ever since its purchase from Knoedler’s in January 1950. The price will be between $400,000 and $500,000. Tunick will also have another work that has been off the market for decades, a circa 1916 Juan Gris Cubist drawing, priced “in the low to mid-six figures.” Gris dedicated the still life of a wine bottle and a bowl to the Mexican artist Angel Zarraga, a friend of Picasso and Braque who lived and worked in Paris. In the 1940s, Zarraga gave it to a friend who was a government minister in Mexico, and it had been with that family ever since.

In addition, Tunick will be offering a selection of 66 drawings by a wide array of artists. The Art Show, says Tunick, who has been participating since the first year, “is the most important fair for classic art, and the most important fair in New York. It’s a great education, the best $10 ticket in town. It’s a museum for sale.”

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