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COVID-19 certainly made Palm Beach the place to be for gallery owners.
Wanting to be near customers who were not traveling because of the pandemic, gallery owners came to where the action is to open up satellite spaces here. Along with the cancellation of major fairs such as Art Basel in Miami, the travel restrictions have limited galleries’ in-person contact with their clients, many of whom have stayed put in places far from New York.
A tempting share of these clients are spending the winter within driving distance of Palm Beach. Among the town’s attractions: a booming real estate market, numerous billionaires on the most recent Forbes 400 list, and several major collectors who live here.
Bill DiPaolo
Special to the Daily News
Big works from artists with big ambitions were on display last month at Evey Fine Art.
“I have a big heart and big dreams. I love big art,” said Antonio Guerrero, standing in front of his 5-foot-high painting of a green-eyed rabbit handing a flower to a red-beaked bird.
Large – and a few small – paintings and porcelain fill the high-ceilinged gallery on the southwest corner of Seaview Avenue and South County Road. One of the largest paintings, a sepia canvas depicting airplanes and buildings, is about 13 feet by 9 feet. The most expensive painting is about $85,000.