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The best results for Old Masters in 2023 [15/12/2023]

Although works from the Old Masters period generate the smallest proportion of the global art market (less than 10% of its global turnover), essentially due to the rarity of masterpieces, this prestigious segment nevertheless attracts passionate bidding. Remember that the most expensive work in auction history is Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, which sold for […]

The top-selling Old Master drawings of the year [03/11/2023]

Every year, unexpected treasures emerge from the past on the auction market, such as MICHELANGELO’s (1475-1564) youthful drawing of A nude man (after Masaccio) with two figures behind that attracted determined bidding when it sold for $24.3 million in Paris last year. It was the best result in 2022 in the quiet but nonetheless exciting […]

What’s coming in July? [23/06/2023]

Before the art market’s traditional summer recess, the major auction houses plan to end their seasons in style. Here is a selection of the most anticipated sales and works during the month of July, from Singapore to London. 2 July – Sotheby’s lays deeper roots in Singapore In August 2022, Sotheby’s made what it called […]

Review of Q1 art market through the prism of three rankings [18/04/2023]

In the first three months of 2023, more than 147,000 artworks changed hands at auctions around the world, but only 13 generated results above the $10 million threshold. If we lower the bar to 7-digit results (<10 million, but > 1 million), there were just under 300 results in this price range, representing less than […]

Paris celebrates drawing [21/03/2023]

This week the French capital hosts its traditional week of fairs and exhibitions dedicated to the art of drawing and all forms of artistic creation on paper. The events include the Salon du Dessin at the Palais Brongniart and the Drawing Now Art Fair and several auction sales.   The action will start at the […]

Flash news: van Dyck, Bronzino, Goya [10/02/2023]

A van Dyck painting acquired for $600 and sold for $3 million A painting by Anthonius VAN DYCK (1599-1641), rediscovered in an American barn in 2002 and authenticated in 2019 by American art historian Susan Barnes (co-author of the catalog raisonné of Van Dyck’s paintings), sold for $3 million on January 26 at Sotheby’s in […]

The Rubens work in the Fisch Davidson Collection, star of Sotheby’s 2023 Masters Week in New York [01/02/2023]

  What distinguishes the Fisch Davidson Collection is the sustained level of quality of the paintings, combined with a willingness to embrace powerful subjects that lesser collectors might find ‘difficult’. Keith Christiansen of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York In January, auctions of Modern and Contemporary art traditionally give way to sales of […]

Fisch-Davidson’s sublime Baroque collection [04/11/2022]

One of the world’s largest private collections of Baroque art is about to hit the market. Sotheby’s has been chosen to disperse this unique collection, presented as the largest private collection of Baroque masterpieces assembled in the modern era. A museum-quality ensemble featuring paintings of dramatic scenes, passionate outbursts, contradictory movements, exacerbated contrasts and elaborate […]

Gérard Garouste at the Pompidou Center [18/10/2022]

“It’s not so important that people know the stories my paintings evoke. They must feel free… allow themselves to be surprised or even shocked. On the other hand, I personally need these subjects, I question them, I work them like the words of an unknown language until they allow me to paint…” – Gérard Garouste, […]

Beeple, from crypto-success to mega-stardom [13/04/2021]

To see Mike Winkelmann – shirt & sweater, small glasses and greying temples – you would have no idea that this ‘normal family man’ appearance hides the imagination of Beeple, a hallucinated world, populated by Hillary Clinton cyborgs, Mark Zuckerberg zombies and futuristic starships in vertical robotic cities. So… apart from being the most bankable […]

Top Old Masters [22/02/2019]

Every other Friday Artprice draws up an auction ranking to help you apprehend the Art Market’s major trends. This week we look at the top 10 auction results for Old Master artworks in 2018. Rembrandt, Brueghel, Cranach, Canova, Rubens… museum-worthy names, some of whose works are still circulating today on the auction market. In the […]

Flash News: Rubens at Victoria Beckham – Laure Prouvost [29/06/2018]

Rubens at Victoria Beckham… The collaboration might seem surprising… but in a quest to revive the image of “Old Master Art” and promote a number of works before their upcoming sale, Sotheby’s joined forces with one of the world’s leading names in fashion, Victoria Beckham. In fact, Sotheby’s chose Victoria Beckham’s Dover Street boutique in […]

Flash News: Zona Maco – London banks on America – Drawings – BRAFA [03/02/2017]

Zona Maco 2017 Mexico is still poorly represented in the international art market with only two artists in the Artprice 2016 Contemporary Art Top 500 (Gabriel Orozco and Bosco Sodi) and auction proceeds of less than $6m. But the situation is changing quickly and the Mexican art market is becoming more and more dynamic. The […]

London’s art market stands firm [12/07/2016]

Once again, the art market is proving its remarkable capacity for resistance in contexts of political and economic turmoil.

Caravaggio or Caravaggisti? [19/04/2016]

The revelation of a new work attributed to Caravaggio – discovered two years ago in the attic of a house in Toulouse (France) – has been greeted with tremendous enthusiasm.

The Top 10 from the Dorotheum auction house [10/04/2015]

Fridays are the best! Every other Friday, Artprice offers you a themed auction ranking. This week, the leader of information on the Art Market discusses the ten most costly sales of 2014 at the Dorotheum auction house.

Flash News: Art Karlsruhe and Robert Capa – New fair in New York – Rubens and His Legacy [06/02/2015]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: Art Karlsruhe and Robert Capa – New fair in New York – Rubens and His Legacy

The Top Ten in Europe. Chapter 7: the UK [05/12/2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week, we reveal the ten highest bids ever registered in the UK, i.e. London, the heart of the European market and the third biggest marketplace in the world.

The Top Ten Nudes [29/08/2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the top ten bids for nudes.

Goya, Hans Memling and Chardin, late January in New York [15/01/2013]

Christie’s and Sotheby’s Old Master sales are one of the jewels of the auction market. They offer a chance to see and acquire rare works and outstanding signatures at prices that are often more reasonable than those achieved by masters of contemporary art.

Art Market News in Brief! [21/09/2012]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news.

Art market news in brief… [24/02/2012]

Starting today, Artprice will be publishing a fortnightly overview of art market news in just a few words and figures.

Old masters – War of the titans [19/07/2011]

The Old Masters art market has two distinct levels: on the one hand there are hundreds of lesser-known artists whose works can often be acquired for 3-figure dollar prices,

Old Masters [24/06/2011]

Our Friday TOP! Every other Friday Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week we present the Top 10 auction results for works by Old Masters.

Sotheby’s records [29/04/2011]

Every fortnight Artprice posts a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. The focus of today’s TOP article is the 10 best auction results generated by Sotheby’s.

2010: the best results from Old Masters [12/07/2010]

The price index for Old Masters reached its peak of the decade in October 2008. Thus, like a number of other art segments, it benefited from the auction room euphoria that developed between 2004 and 2008 and then suffered from the meltdown as the economic crisis chased confidence out of the market. However, since the end of 2009 the major works withheld from auctions when the market was weak have started to return.

Old Master’s sales : Raphaël vs Wu Bin [15/12/2009]

After two days of prestigious Old Master’s sales in London, Christie’s posted a substantially higher revenue total than its rival Sotheby’s with $99.4m (vs. $20.7m) and four new historic records, including one for Raphaël that outclassed the record set by the Chinese artist Wu Bin.

Old Masters: a stable and reliable market [03/08/2009]

Old Masters overtaking Contemporary Art sales? That’s how it looks after Sotheby’s and Christie’s London sales of combined Old Masters & 19th century art on 7 & 8 July. The total revenue from the two houses’ Old Masters works amounted to nearly £39m, i.e. a million more than they both earned from Contemporary Art sales the previous month.

Old Masters Art Market more demanding than ever [14/12/2008]

Compared with the rising stars of the contemporary art market from China, India and the Middle-East whose markets have been stimulated by speculative temptation, the market for works by Old Masters is much less volatile and therefore much less risky. However, it is not completely sheltered.

London sales of Old Master paintings – Good results [28/07/2008]

As 7-figure bids become commonplace in the speculative and volatile contemporary segment of the art market, bidding for less publicised older works is still buoyant. The Christie’s and Sotheby’s sales of Old Master Paintings on 8 and 9 July 2008 generated new records with rare masterpieces from private collections.

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