basically pitted against each other for the most desirable works now here is a look at this year's art basel. almost three billion euros of art is up for sale at the forty ninth edition of art basel this mosaic for example by spanish artist. it has a twenty one million euro price tag. or if abstract oil paintings are more your thing how about this work by the american artist joan mitchell two of her works for fourteen million a piece in the first days of the fat at the high end of the market money it seems is no object despite economic uncertainty. there may be tear clouds on the horizon in general economic terms and we're not going to go into that right now however the point is that even if those clouds start to thunderstorm the very high net worth individuals still continue to collect in trade are at their level there are untouchable. highlights include a number of picasso's and those are hanging metallic sculpture by louise bush who are up for grabs standout pieces of beyond most art basel visitors pockets but they are also and ferns for the top galleries who have to maintain standards to

here's their stand at art basel by calder mirror who's fun tanos because. and also a roy lichtenstein and initial interview face all of them stars of modern art. in the mud collection is valued at almost three billion dollars thousands of works most of which are stored at the geneva freeport. maybe the reason david no mud prefers to be discreet is because one of the paintings he owns is causing him problems with the law. the story started here in the paris archives in two thousand and eleven with this man james palmer. is a canadian private detective who specializes in finding art looted from jews by the nazis. one day while rummaging in the paris archives he came across a file on a certain stetson or a jewish antiques dealer. the man was dispossessed of all his assets during world war two. after the liberation of paris he found a plane to recuperate his patrimony. the documentation is contained in this box it was here in the paris archives that we found a document that referred to the quest of mr oscar stoner for his stolen pate. the information that we fou

you know well no one knows for sure but one new york gallery even announced that they're quitting art basel for good they've started advertising their art on instagram and sponsored posts that will be targeted at people who are attending art basel and i think the more of the the more the the market goes toward this higher and the more we're going to see smaller galleries with smaller artists taking to those tactics instagram social media this is where the future is probably going to go to that we thank you so much david have a fantastic weekend. now with the world cup underway football fever is sweeping the globe but why she humans have all the fun want to leave you now with the china as they say and show paying a panda base where so furry footballers also got a piece of the action thanks for spending time with us. the bomb possibly. the be . the be. the be. the be. the but. the be . the but the be. the be . the best. for her. your pain stars the browsing the form and submit the music sounds call the british crossover band. the beauty. of country. to. abort. are fighting for the case to be

fair in the world art basel. he flies in a private jet for which he pays fifty thousand dollars a year. despite his tangles with the law he wants to be in the right places how could you possibly tell want to go out to budgets little. say that but just as strong and yet people see it up because of doing nothing else it would. make sense to be so simple let's do something making sure. you get a bunch of them before us which was but they couldn't get. the sec would set that will be immediate.