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"ref": "2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited",
"text": "Foreign buyers entering the western art market are also buying artists with their ears rather than their eyes, and overpaying if others have.",
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"To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value."
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"(art, colloquial) To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value."
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"(art, colloquial) To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value."
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