Andy Warhol Art at Art Basel Miami Beach

and then Art Basel in Miami Beach closed its 14th edition. Dealers packed their wares back into crates. Some of those works are destined for collectors’ homes, some headed back to gallery storage. The former group does not include the volume of seven- and eight-figure pieces that it has in recent years, at least as far as what dealers would report publicly. Completed transactions as of Saturday evening topped out at around $15 million, the asking price for Francis Bacon’s Man in Blue VI (1954) sold from Van de Weghe’s stand. The New York dealer also sold Picasso’s Buste au Chapeau (1971) for $10.5 million. And a handful of sales were reported at or above the million-dollar mark: Andy Warhol’s 1980 silkscreen of Joseph Beuys on offer from Thaddaeus Ropac sold for $1.4 million. -- Art For Um