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Top bracket artworks for sale at the beginning of 2019 [01 Jan 2019]
Focus on three rare works on offer in January… No respite for art lovers! The new year begins today for collectors, with two drawings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres presented on 1 January 2019 in a municipal auction in Normandy (Bruno Roquigny in Saint-Valéry-en-Caux). The two portraits, one of Ferdinand-Philippe, Duke of Orleans (1841), the other of […]
Encouraging figures for Cuban Art [25 Dec 2018]
Cuban art is increasingly diversified, especially since 2014 when La Fábrica was inaugurated and Cuban artist Kcho opened his Art Laboratory in the district of Romerillo. 2014 was also the year US President Barack Obama made his famous speech announcing a thaw in diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba and, of course, encouraging […]
Flash News! Oskar Kokoschka – Grayson Perry – Charles White [21 Dec 2018]
Oskar Kokoschka in Zürich He stared at you with slightly irregular sky-blue eyes. The index finger pointed, he seemed to be poised to speak. Joseph de Montesquiou-Fezensac had so much to tell us. In January 1910 the young Oskar KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980) met Joseph and his wife Victoria at the luxurious Mont Blanc sanatorium in Leysin […]
Paul Cézanne, the Father of Modern art [18 Dec 2018]
Cézanne occupies a special place in the history of Modern art. Rejected by the art world at the beginning of his career, he had a major influence on numerous artists. Mocked during his lifetime, his paintings are today among the most expensive on the global market. The story of Paul CÉZANNE’s accession to this special […]
Top selling sculptures [14 Dec 2018]
Every other Friday Artprice offers you an auction ranking that brings to light some of the Art Market’s primary trends. This week, we take another look at the best auction results for three-dimensional artworks in 2018. The year’s best global auction results for three-dimensional artworks have – above all – rewarded 20th century French artists: […]
Artprice: Artprice100©’s “blue-chip artists” index shows a 4.3% increase in a fragile economic context [13 Dec 2018]
Since the beginning of 2018, the S&P 500 index has been oscillating without really finding a stable growth path. Over the first 11 months of the year, the American benchmark index has posted an increase of just +2.4%, a gain that could well diminish over the next few days. Compared with this performance, the Art […]
Christie’s Paris. Latest market trends [11 Dec 2018]
In the insurrectional context that has affected the French capital in recent weeks, Christie’s exhibition rooms were closed the weekend before their Contemporary Art sales on 4 and 5 December. However the results of the sales were generally positive. Christie’s is not afraid of dense sales: on 4 and 5 December it offered a decidedly […]
Flash News ! Pierre Soulages – Fernand Léger – Christie’s Hong Kong [07 Dec 2018]
Pierre Soulages, exponential value potential On 15 November, Christie’s in New York hammered a superb new record for Pierre SOULAGES – famous for his outre-noir (beyond-black) – at $10.6 million for a work entitled Peinture 186 x 143 cm, 23 décembre 1959 (a date corresponding to the eve of his 40th birthday). Acquired by an anonymous […]
Günther Uecker’s bristling œuvre [04 Dec 2018]
“We need images to communicate the unspeakable” In some ways, the work of German artist Günther Uecker seems like a synthesis of Lucio Fontana’s logic with that of Yves Klein, who he knew well. The purpose of art? To go beyond words… to open the door to immateriality and transcendence while remaining rooted in everyday […]
The Top10 of Surrealism [30 Nov 2018]
Every other Friday Artprice posts an auction ranking to help you apprehend the Art Market’s leading trends. This week, Artprice takes a look at the 10 most expensive Surrealist artworks ever sold at auction… A ranking very clearly dominated by Miro. The Catalan Surrealist artist Joan Miro, currently the subject of a major retrospective at […]
Focus on Francis Picabia [27 Nov 2018]
Enigmatic, paradoxical, unclassifiable, the work of Picabia was a key element in the strong wind of change that emerged in the early 20th century, especially through the Dada movement. A mainstay of the Western art market, Picabia’s work has never been subject to any major price hikes, but his prices have been progressing at a […]
Flash News: Mad about Magritte – Pierre Bergé collection – Photography [23 Nov 2018]
Mad about Magritte Four new records in less than two years! René MAGRITTE (1898 – 1967), one of Surrealism’s central figures, keeps breaking new ground on the secondary market, with a strong acceleration this past year. His auction record has more than doubled in 10 years and on 12 November in New York it reached […]
New York sales: key figures [19 Nov 2018]
After the records hammered at New York’s prestige Impressionist and Modern Art sales (including records for René Magritte, Oskar Kokoschka, Jean Arp and Tamara de Lempicka), the city’s prestige Contemporary Art sales have just generated even stronger results, with two works close to the 100 million threshold at Christie’s. Christie’s announces a turnover total of […]
Top 10 works of abstract art [16 Nov 2018]
Every other Friday Artprice posts an auction ranking to help you apprehend the Art Market’s leading trends. This week, Artprice takes a look at the 10 most expensive abstract artworks on the auction market and overviews the general value accretion currently affecting the entire genre. Abstraction is now over a century old. The genre was […]
Evening dress at Christie’s [13 Nov 2018]
At a time when rivalry between collectors seems to have reached an unprecedented high, Christie’s is poised to raise prices to exceptional levels. Tonight the Art Market’s most powerful players will be present at an exceptional event: a prestige sale organised by Christie’s in New York (13 November 2018). Under the title An American Place, […]
Flash News: Middle Eastern Art – Art Düsseldorf [09 Nov 2018]
White Glove sale for Middle Eastern Art On 24 October, Bonhams of London offered the Abraaj collection for sale. A Dubai-based private equity firm and former sponsor of the Dubai Art Fair, Abraaj was known for its collection of Middle Eastern and Asian art. With its founder and CEO Arif Naqvi currently under investigation for […]
22nd edition of Paris Photo [06 Nov 2018]
8-11 November 2018, at the Grand Palais in Paris thierry Ehrmann, Artprice’s founder and CEO: “Artprice is proud to have contributed to keeping Paris Photo afloat in 2000 and we are very pleased to see how the fair has established itself as the largest annual event dedicated to photography on the Art Market. It’s an […]
Top 10 self-portraits [02 Nov 2018]
Every other Friday Artprice offers you an auction ranking to help you apprehend some of the primary trends in the Art Market. This week, Artprice takes another look at self-portraiture, one of Art History’s primary subjects. By definition, a self-portrait is an image of oneself created by oneself. It is also a way of figuratively […]
The multitude of art fairs highlights a multi-speed market [30 Oct 2018]
The global figures show phenomenal Art Market growth: +1,700% since the year 2000 in terms of Fine Art auction turnover, with Contemporary art as the market’s principal driver. However, the extraordinary expansion is not evenly spread across the market… as we saw at the various different art fairs recently hosted in Paris. The FIAC’s results […]
Flash News: Eduardo Arroyo – Christie’s and Blockchain [26 Oct 2018]
Eduardo Arroyo Eduardo ARROYO (1937-2018) died on 14 October at the age of 81. A journalist and a writer, he also applied his talents to engraving, sculpture, set design and, above all, painting. After exiling himself from Franco’s Spain in 1958, he settled in Paris where he became a major representative of the Narrative Figuration […]
Jacques Monory… an œuvre in blue [23 Oct 2018]
“His almost exclusive use of the color blue was his signature and his monochrome canvases with their photo-like finishes form a long panorama marked by melancholy… and the occasional nightmare”, Paule Monory. Two major artists of the Narrative Figuration movement have died within a couple of days of each other: first the painter and sculptor Eduardo […]
The TOP 10 so far… [19 Oct 2018]
Every other Friday Artprice offers you an auction ranking to help you apprehend some of the primary trends in the Art Market. This ranking takes a look at the 10 best million-plus results of the market’s autumn season so far. In the East / West competition to attract the wealthiest bidders and generate sensational and […]
London / Paris [16 Oct 2018]
An astonishing start to the new auction season in London has brought the vibrant Contemporary Art market back into the limelight. During the first fifteen days of October, London was the centre of the art world, with top-level events including Frieze London, Frieze Masters and the high-quality and eclectic Design fair, PAD. The city also […]
Flash News! Turner Prize – Zao Wou Ki – Sterling Ruby – Paper Positions [12 Oct 2018]
Turner Prize 2018 – political art? The momentum of London’s Contemporary art scene is largely driven by the Turner Prize organized by the Tate Britain and rewarding a Contemporary British artist once a year. Since its inception in 1984, the award has always taken a distinctly forward-looking approach, boldly nominating conceptual artists, visual artists or […]
A High-octane start to the new season [09 Oct 2018]
Fired up by the built to be destructed Banksy’s work, by Zao Wou-ki’s new record of more than $65 million and a generally favourable market context (according to Artprice’s AMCI confidence index, 68% of market professionals are in the mood for buying art), the new auction season has all the stars aligned for dynamic market […]
Top results in Korea [05 Oct 2018]
Every fortnight Artprice offers you a theme-based auction ranking that provides insight into the principal trends in the global Art Market. This week’s ranking looks at the most sought-after artists in Seoul. There is only one non-Korean artist in this Special Seoul ranking: the wonderfully obsessive Yayoi KUSAMA. It is not surprising to see this […]
Artprice presents its 2018 Contemporary Art Market Report ahead of the Frieze and the FIAC [01 Oct 2018]
Artprice ahead of the Frieze and the FIAC presents its 2018 Contemporary Art Market Report: Plus 1,744% turnover growth in 18 years, an 8.1% annual yield. A full market is now active on 5 continents. Artprice, founded and presided by thierry Ehrmann, achieves in close collaboration with its Chinese institutional partner the group Artron/AMMA (Art […]
Art, in augmented reality [25 Sep 2018]
“I must not hurt humans”… The repeated written sentence as punishment… for a robot! The installation Punishment (2017) by Filipe Vilas-Boas and Paul Coudamy features a large articulated arm “sitting” at a desk, busy copying the first fundamental law of robotics, as formulated by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. However, artificial ‘intelligence’ in the field […]
Flash News: Beirut Art Fair – The David Teiger Collection [21 Sep 2018]
Beirut Art Fair 2018 Art will be everywhere… art is light, it’s peace and it’s a celebration. This quote from Laure d’Hauteville, founder of Beirut Art fair, sounds like a definition of Lebanon itself. A major artistic rendez-vous for the Middle East, the Lebanese fair has been showcasing creativity from the ME.NA.SA region (Middle East, […]
Pierre Alechinsky returns to limelight [18 Sep 2018]
Against the backdrop of a revival in his market, Pierre Alechinsky was awarded the leading global prize for painting this year. Close to the Surrealists, Pierre ALECHINSKY (1927) was an active member of CoBrA in the late 1940’s and his work grew out of a wide range of influences including music and Japanese calligraphy. During […]
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