Billionaire Jeff Bezos and his fiancé Lauren Sanchez took to their future dwelling in Miami, Florida, over the weekend to attend the coveted annual Artwork Basel occasion.
The artwork set up present, which ran from Friday, December 8 via Sunday, December 10, on the Miami Seashore Conference Middle, has in recent times turn into a week-long marathon of occasions, events, dinners, and model installations that entice the influencer sorts and the who’s-who of the artwork scene.
Earlier within the week, choose VIPs had been invited to preview among the 250 galleries of recent and modern artwork earlier than they had been open to the general public.
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Bezos and Sanchez had been noticed throughout VIP previews on Thursday alongside Marc Glimcher, the chief govt of Tempo Gallery and a distinguished seller within the trendy artwork world. Glimcher gained mass notoriety within the artwork world in 2012 when he bought a portray to German visible artist Gerhard Richter at Artwork Basel in Switzerland for a cool $20 million.
Bezos and Sanchez had been internet hosting the FIRST Encourage Gala on the Loews Miami Seashore Lodge, honoring Ursula Burns, CEO of XEROX, to profit youth in STEM.
Visitors attend the FIRST® & i.am/Angel Basis throughout Artwork Basel Miami at Loews Miami Seashore Lodge on December 06, 2023 in Miami Seashore, Florida. (Ivan Apfel/Getty Pictures for FIRST)
The pair fueled rumors that a purchase order might need been made, as Bezos is thought to be a giant spender on artwork.
In 2019, he reportedly spent $70 million on two large artistic endeavors — particularly Ed Ruscha’s “Hurting the Phrase Radio #2” (1964) for $52.5 million at Christie’s and Kerry James Marshall’s “Vignette 19” (2014) for $18.5 million at Sotheby’s.
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It’s unclear if the pair bought artwork on the occasion.
Bezos’ web value as of Monday afternoon was an estimated $172 billion.