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	BASEL ART SNAPSHOT

Picture postcards from Art 37 Basel, the VOLTAshow 02 and more.


		Dealer Karsten Greve at his booth at Art 37 Basel		Martin Creed�s Work No 549 (2006), sited on the Messeplatz in front of the new Ramada Plaza hotel, courtesy by Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle, Munich		Curator Okwui Enwezor reading the Art Newspaper�s "gossip" page at a café on the Messeplatz


			Berlin painter Tatjana Doll�s Ferrari F40NH (2005) at the booth of Art & Public, Geneva, sold for €25,000 to a Tokyo collector. Dealer Pierre Huber said, "She doesn�t paint only cars!"		Madrid dealer Soledad Lorenzo with Jorge Galindo�s Ilusión (2006) (left) and Susy Gómez� Sin Título 233 (2006), both priced at €18,000


		Georg Herold�s It Would Be Nice to Have Just One Untitled (2004) -- a group of bricks attached to canvas with paint -- at the booth of Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, for €55,000		California sculptor Liz Larner�s High Strength (2006) at Regan Projects, Los Angeles, for $120,000		An untitled trough of fan-blown waves by Swiss artist Roman Signer at the booth of Stampa Basel, sold for SF14,000 to a private collector


			At the booth of Galerist, opened in Istanbul in 2001, Hussein Chalayan�s Repose 2 (2006), €70,000		In the Art 37 Basel VIP lounge, a booth selling condos at Ian Schrager�s luxury 40 Bond development in New York, priced $3.3 million to $12 million, about 50 percent sold


		New York dealer Daniel Reich, and fan, at Liste 06 in Basel		Moscow Biennale director Joseph Backstein at Art 37 Basel		Zurich artist Katja Schenker perfiorming Sauvée (rescued), converting a parachute into a lifebelt, at the booth of Galerie Mark Müller at Art 37 Basel


			An untitled joke work by Richard Prince, laser engraved and burned in wood panel, made in an edition of eight, at the booth of Two Palms Press at Art 37 Basel, priced at $50,000-$75,000, with six sold halfway through the fair		New York dealer Brooke Alexander in his booth with Richard Artschwager�s untitled "quote" multiple from 1980, sold to a major Swiss collector. "See the quotes? Everything in between is text!"


		Laughing Hole (2006), the remnants of a performance by the Spanish theater artist La Ribot, in "Art Unlimited" at Art 37 Basel, sponsored by Galería Soledad Lorenzo		Media art pioneer Tony Conrad at Liste 06 in Basel		Ilya Kabakov�s verbal "tennis game" installation, in "Art Unlimited," sponsored by Galleria Continua, San Gimignano and Beijing


			Still from Rodney Graham�s 2003 film, Loudhailer, in "Art Unlimited" at Art 37 Basel, sponsored by Donald Young Gallery and Hauser & Wirth		Banks Violette�s Voidhanger (turin channel) � all tomorrows graves (2006), in "Art Unlimited," sponsored by Team, New York


		Still from Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno�s film Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, screened at the new Herzog & de Meuron-designed St. Jakob Stadium during Art 37 Basel (and rumored to be priced at $200,000)		Fabian Marcaccio�s U.N. Paintant (2005), a 3D construction of a fallen U.N. officer, in "Art Unlimited" at Art 37 Basel, sponsored by Galerie Thomas Schulte and Bravin Lee Programs		Zürich art dealer Serge Ziegler, at Art 37 Basel


		Mexico City dealer Enrique Guerrero with a work by Enrique Jezik at his gallery booth at VOLTAshow 02, Basel		Sherrie Levine's Monochromes (12 Black Monochromes, 12 Gray Monochromes, 12 White Monochromes) (2000), in "Art Unlimited" at Art 37 Basel, sponsored by Jablonka Galerie, Cologne		Jean-Luc Moerman�s Projet tatouage (Pamela Anderson) (2006), at Galerie Rudolphe Janssen, Brussels, at Art 37 Basel, sold for $10,000 each


			James Rosenquist, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Eleanor Roosevelt, 1998, originally commissioned for the ceiling of the Palais de Chaillot in Paris for $7 million, in "Art Unlimited" at Art 37 Basel, sponsored by Acquavella Gallery, reportedly priced at $10 million		New York dealer Ethan Cohen�s booth at VOLTAshow 02, with Zhou Xiaohu�s When Attitude Becomes Form -- The Opening Ceremony (1) (2005), showing the curators of Documenta, on reserve for €39,000


		Artist Aya Rokkaku at work in the booth of Kaikai Kiki, New York, at VOLTAshow 02, with the works all on reserve		Works by Gert Robijns (foreground) and Erik van Lieshout at the booth of Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, at VOLTA, priced €6,000 and €7,000, respectively		Rina Banerjee�s Birds without Paradise: Sulfur Flower (2006) at Newman Popiashvili at VOLTA, sold for $15,000


		Francis Alys, "The Sign Painting Project (1993-97): A Revision," installation view, at the Schaulager, Basel		Susanne Kuhn�s 2006 Bamboo Garden ($36,000) and Henry Krokatsis� untitled flooring of found wood with Formica, in a pattern based on the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles (�700 per square meter) at the booth of Goff + Rosenthal at VOLTAshow 02		A photo from Yasumasa Morimura�s new series, A Requiem: Mishima 1970. 11.25-2006.4.6 (2006), $31,500 in an edition of five, at Shugoarts, Tokyo


		Parking it at the Messseplatz during Art 37 Basel		Helen Mirra�s Wolkendecke (cloud cover) (2006), made of military surplus hospital blankets, in "Art Unlimited" at Art 37 Basel, sponsored by Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe		Tacita Dean�s Chalk Balls (2006) and Monkey Puzzle (2006) in "Analogue: Films, Photographs, Drawing 1991-2006" at Schaulager, Basel


			Pablo Picasso�s Femme couchée � la meche blonde (1932), presented by Jan Krugier Gallery at Art 37 Basel, $25 million		General Idea, One Month of AZT (1991), at the booth of Esther Schipper Berlin, $175,000

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