Could a slowdown in the fine art market be a bad sign for the high end coin market?

From USA Today:
Shares for famed auction house Sotheby's slid nearly 30% to close at $35.84 Thursday after an impressionist and
modern art auction Wednesday netted $269.7 million, below an estimated range of $355.6 million to $494.2 million.
A Bank of America Securities report out Thursday said the results suggest a slowdown in the market. Twenty of the
76 works of art on offer failed to sell, most notably Vincent Van Gogh's "Wheat Fields", one of his last paintings.
Shares for famed auction house Sotheby's slid nearly 30% to close at $35.84 Thursday after an impressionist and
modern art auction Wednesday netted $269.7 million, below an estimated range of $355.6 million to $494.2 million.
A Bank of America Securities report out Thursday said the results suggest a slowdown in the market. Twenty of the
76 works of art on offer failed to sell, most notably Vincent Van Gogh's "Wheat Fields", one of his last paintings.
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<< <i>It wasn't just a bad auction, Sotheby's guaranteed the rare paintings and had to buy them at the low estimate. The Van Gogh was guaranteed at $20Mn, Ouch! >>
The fine art market is extremely competitive between the major auction houses so sometimes they have to make guarantees like
this to get consignments. The auction I'm sure was planned months ago but the timing turned out really bad.
with Les Demoiselles D´Avignon or a new pair of Jermyn IIs - once the money is spent it is spent and if my large cents are worth
anything more than what I paid for them then all the better but matters little to me if all the values of all coins drop by 100% (maybe I
can get a 1827 Sawtooth on the cheap) though I wish no harm to the livelihood of the handful of coin dealers
I consider human-beings.