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By Colin Gleadell 1110AM GMT sixteen March 2010

A item from Picasso"s "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust"

If any artist can disintegrate Giacometti"s $104 million universe jot down for a work of art at auction, it is Picasso. Last week at the Maastricht art fair, bets were on that Picasso"s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, from the pick up of Mrs Sidney F Brody, could be the one to do it when offering by Christie"s in New York in May. Estimated at $80 million, it compares with Le Rêve, an additional work from the series, that was to be sole secretly for $139 million by Las Vegas hotelier Steve Wynn, prior to he inadvertently put his bend by it. Certainly Picasso"s palette boards, on that he churned his paints, were in jot down cost domain at Maastricht. At the Galerie Krugier, a organisation from the pick up of Picasso"s daughter Marina were labelled from €110,000 to €2 million.

A sign of Charles Saatchi"s fall-out with Damien Hirst is on palm at Maastricht, where London"s Haunch of Venison art studio is displaying Hirst"s 1996 work This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed at Home, a formaldehyde square of a sliced pig in dual tanks. Owned by Saatchi when it was shown at the Sensation muster in 1997, it was sole to Hirst in 2003, when the artist paid for eleven of his functions behind from Saatchi for a reported �8 million. Haunch of Venison, a auxiliary of Christie"s, has right away acquired the work from Hirst and is asking �7.9 million for it.

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A organisation of paintings from the pick up of the Earl of Wemyss is for sale at Maastricht by London play Simon Dickinson. The earl, who hereditary the pretension after his 96-year-old father died in 2008, is not thought to be as committed to preserving informative birthright as his father had been, and had asked Dickinson to sell 3 paintings, the majority critical of that is The Baptism of Christ, by Nicolas Poussin, labelled in the segment of �6 million to �8 million. It will need an trade looseness if an abroad customer wants it, according to Sir Timothy Clifford, the former executive of the National Galleries of Scotland, who right away functions with Dickinson. Asked because the nobleman was selling, Dickinson pronounced simply "He needs the money."

The idea that the marketplace for Chinese antiques has been the strongest via the retrogression was partly borne out in Maastricht, where Ben Janssens" Oriental Art of London sole some-more than thirty pieces during the in isolation view. New Chinese and normal Western collectors aroused of cost rises are competing, insist the dealers, though Wang Yannan, boss of China"s greatest auctioneers, China Guardian, warned that the marketplace was additionally awash with fakes.