Art Basel Miami Beach, the biggest contemporary-art fair in the U.S., will offer $3 billion of art as auction revenue hit a record last month in New York.

The fair’s 13th edition, with 267 galleries from 31 countries representing 4,000 artists, opens tomorrow to select guests at the Miami Beach Convention Center and on Dec. 4 to the public. Sellers expect collectors to continue their buying spree following the record $2.3 billion of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art that sold during November’s auction season.

“It’s going to be a very strong fair,” said the New York dealer Christophe Van de Weghe, whose booth has a Christopher Wool painting for $6.3 million and a Jean-Michel Basquiat work for $5.5 million. “There’s a lot of collectors coming from so many different parts of the world, and all have a big appetite to buy art.”

Art Basel Miami Beach will whet that appetite with trophy names including Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder and Sigmar Polke at individual prices as high as $18 million. The fair is the focal point of a week in which billionaires and celebrities swarm Miami to attend invite-only dinners and poolside parties where singers including Miley Cyrus are expected to perform. The fair runs through Dec. 7.

75,000 Visitors

Art Basel in Switzerland and the Miami version were the second- and third most-attended art fairs in the world, respectively, from the fall of 2013 through June 30, behind a Madrid-based collectibles fair, according to Skate’s, a New York-based art market researcher. Attendance in Miami is expected to exceed last year’s 75,000, fair organizers said.

NetJets Inc., the fractional ownership private jet company owned by Warren Buffett, said bookings in and out of Miami are up 16 percent from last year to about 250 flights. Miami Opa- Locka Executive Airport, seven miles north of Miami International Airport, said it’s expecting more than 1,000 private jets.

Dealers and advisers said that collectors are more willing to embrace contemporary art as the market has matured and expanded.

“Thirty or 40 years ago, the type of people who could collect contemporary art would have been buying Old Masters and Impressionist art,” said Marc Spiegler, director of Art Basel. “That’s completely changed now.”

The value of art on display at Art Basel is $3 billion, up from the $2 billion to $2.5 billion estimated in 2011, according to AXA Art Insurance Corp.

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