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After Years of Uncertainty, Galleries Bet on Quality

After Years of Uncertainty, Galleries Bet on Quality


Paris gallerist Jocelyn Wolff is always stressed before Art Basel, he told me over the phone from a café in the French capital earlier this month. In fact, by his calculation, he has suffered 20 years of pre-Basel stress, less from worrying about the vicissitudes of the art market, than from the high participation costs for his small 8th arrondissement gallery. This year, however, he is feeling a bit less anxious than usual, thanks to some fortuitous pre-sales. That bodes well for the flagship Art Basel fair, opening to VIPs at the Swiss city’s Messeplatz on Tuesday.



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