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Hot art sales may be cooling down

Jan 27, 2016
Here are the numbers we're reading and watching for Wednesday.
Pablo Picasso's 'Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) at right and Alberto Giacometti's 'Man Pointing' at left sit in a room at Christie's in New York City. The Picasso masterpiece fetched more than $179 million, smashing the world record for the most expensive art sold at auction. The bronze statue by Giacometti sold for more than $141 million, setting a new record for the world's most expensive sculpture sold at auction.
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