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The art world turned out for Frieze’s vernissage
By The Art Newspaper. From Frieze daily edition
Published online: 13 October 2011
Fashion designer Valentino views Christian Jankowski’s luxury yacht, one of the Frieze Projects
Frieze yesterday saw the usual queue of collectors, dealers, advisers and auction house specialists eager at 11am to discover what the fair has on offer this year. Among the first into the tent was actor Matt Lucas, soon followed by restaurateur Richard Caring, model Elle Macpherson and film star Joseph Fiennes. From the US were Californian collectors Norah and Norman Stone, and coming from nearer home were British stalwarts David Roberts and Anita Zabludowicz with hubby Poju and son Roy, as well as Evgeny Lebedev, the Russian chairman of the London Evening Standard and the Independent.
Also on the list of early visitors were collectors Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Jean Pigozzi, Uli Sigg, the Chinese-Indonesian Budi Tek, and Brazilians Ricard Akagawa and Pedro Barbosa. Dasha Zhukova made time for the fair, but her partner, Roman Abramovich, had legal matters to attend to.
Art advisers have an increasingly important role in the market, and spotted in the aisles were Suzanne Pagé, who buys for Bernard Arnault (he is opening a museum in Paris), Patricia Marshall, whose clients include Eugenio López, Mexico’s leading collector, and Miami-based Lisa Austin.
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