Billionaire Jeff Bezos and his fiancé Lauren Sanchez took to their future house 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 by way of Sunday, December 10, on the Miami Seashore Conference Middle, has in recent times grow to be 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 have been invited to preview a number of the 250 galleries of recent and modern artwork earlier than they have been open to the general public.
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Bezos and Sanchez have been noticed throughout VIP previews on Thursday alongside Marc Glimcher, the chief government of Tempo Gallery and a outstanding seller within the trendy artwork world. Glimcher gained mass notoriety within the artwork world in 2012 when he offered a portray to German visible artist Gerhard Richter at Artwork Basel in Switzerland for a cool $20 million.
Bezos and Sanchez have been internet hosting the FIRST Encourage Gala on the Loews Miami Seashore Lodge, honoring Ursula Burns, CEO of XEROX, to learn 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 Photos for FIRST)
The pair fueled rumors that a purchase order may need been made, as Bezos is understood to be an enormous spender on artwork.
In 2019, he reportedly spent $70 million on two large artworks — specifically 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.
