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  • Bar of soap sells for $18,000 at frenzied Art Basel

    BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) — Perhaps the oddest piece of work at Art Basel is a bar of soap, displayed on a square of black velvet, purportedly made from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's fat, removed during liposuction.

    Gianni Monti's work called Clean Hands— the title is a play on the name of an anti-Mafia group — sold in less than an hour for 15,000 euros ($18,000) to a private Swiss collector, according to Monti's Galerie Nicola von Senger of Zurich....


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