Art’s New Numbers.

ARTIST: Picasso TITLE: “Musketeer With a Pipe” (1968) AUCTION HOUSE: Christie’s ESTIMATE: $12 million to $18 million.

$80 Million? Try a Tenth of That. Art’s New Numbers.

By CAROL VOGEL Published: May 3, 2009

The buzzword for this spring’s important auctions of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art is conservative, with catalogs filled with blue-chip artists rather than emerging names.
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