L'attualità del mercato dell'arte di Tom WESSELMANN (1931-2004)

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Art Basel special: focus on the Unlimited section [14/06/2019]

Every other Friday Artprice posts an auction ranking highlighting the Art Market’s major trends. This week – dedicated to Art Basel – Artprice looks at the 10 most expensive artists in Basel Art Fair’s ‘Unlimited’ sector. Art Basel (13-16 June 2019), the world’s most prestigious Contemporary art fair, is currently in full swing, attracting tens […]

Contemporary Art: ascending price indexes [01/07/2013]

London’s prestige Contemporary Art sales on 25 and 26 June (Contemporary Art Evening Auctions) generated

Contemporary Korean art [21/09/2010]

A strong symbol of the dynamism of Contemporary Korean art, the 9th edition of the Korean International Art Fair (KIAF) came to an end last week.

American Pop Art – the bubble is leaking air… [21/09/2008]

The general price index for American Pop Art – the epicentre of art market speculation since the beginning of the decade – is showing signs of waning. Although Andy Warhol is the third most expensive post-war artist, along with Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko, auction sales of his works since the start of 2008 have been less successful… Could this be a first sign of market saturation?

Christie’s confirms its leading position in contemporary art [21/05/2007]

The thrill of the New York contemporary art auctions is no longer the thousand dollar sale but those achieving millions of dollars. At the height of the May sales, a work by Mark ROTHKO went for 65 million dollars, becoming the most expensive post-war work in the market. These days the Sotheby’s and Christie’s contemporary art auctions are raising proceeds in excess of those on “Impressionist & Modern Art”. In 138 lots, the 15 and 16 May sales generated, all costs included, 639,528,400 million dollars, compared with 515,012,000 million dollars on 123 lots the previous week in the “Impressionist & Modern Art” sales.

Contemporary Art Auction in Paris focused on New Realists [05/04/2005]

On 19 April, the auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr well be the venue for a major auction of contemporary art dedicated to the New Realists and entitled “The ‘New Realists’, Contemporary Art, Banque Worms Collection”. This is not the first time.

AMERICAN POP ART: +160% in 10 years [12/08/2003]

Pop art blurred the lines between fine art and its commercial cousin — an astute business move, apparently, as prices at auction now spiral beyond the reach of many collectors.

Tom Wesselmann (born 1931) [11/08/2003]

In 2002, with the “Great American Nude #44”, Tom Wesselman was one of the 5 Pop’Art artists who set a new record. But, such record apart, 80% of Wesselmann’s works go for less than USD 15,000

The Pop Art as its Pop Star [19/08/2002]

Barely half a century after they were created, the works of Andy WARHOL, Roy LICHTENSTEIN, Jasper JOHNS and Robert RAUSCHENBERG are already seen as collectors’ masterpieces.

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