Sales Limp As NY’s Art Show Opens Sans Sponsor Lehman

“Several dealers among the 70 with booths [at the Art Show] reported meager sales or none at all. Patrons — the women wearing large jewels and the men dressed in suits — spent as much time eating thumb- size vegetable dumplings, Peking duck in scallion pancakes and pulled pork sandwiches as they did perusing the art. ‘Everyone is paralyzed,’ said dealer Per Skarstedt. ‘It has to be either rare or inexpensive or both.'”