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Art Market Briefing — Global
Preface
Seven Tokyo galleries put aside their rivalry and form a collective, while London prepares to pull out the stops for Frieze week.
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01Photograph of the New York Stock exchange by Andreas Gursky for the Frieze festival.
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02Lucian Freud's portrait of a heavily pregnant model.
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03Lenin by Andy Warhol
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04Alistair Hicks
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05New blood
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