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NFTs, chaos in the art world: the must-see Arte documentary [26/01/2024]
“Non-Fungible Tokens – or NFTs as they are known – promise to transform the art market: fewer intermediaries, more money for artists, fewer barriers to entry for collectors. […] Let me guide you through the labyrinth of future possibilities”… says the artificially generated female voice that kicks off the new documentary broadcast by the Arte […]
Hyper-valuation of young artists… the trend is accelerating [26/07/2022]
In a tragicomic play written by Pierre Corneille, one of his characters says “I’m young, it’s true; but for well-born souls, value is not a question of age”. That famous line may have been written almost 400 years ago, but it hasn’t aged a bit and is today more than ever relevant in the […]
The Art Market and the Environment : Can digital art be green? [03/06/2022]
The art world is belatedly but resolutely assuming its responsibilities with respect to the natural world. This is the last article in our three-part series on the ecological issues facing the art market and how the secondary art market can adopt a more environmentally friendly approach. Our first article focused on initiatives implemented by the […]
Artprice looks back over 2021 auction highlights and the NFT phenomenon [11/01/2022]
The term ‘NFT’ has been elected word of the year 2021 (all languages combined) by the Collins English Dictionary. The blockchain technology supporting the existence of NFTs was officially born in 2017, but it is only in the last ten months that it has attracted the general public’s attention by inviting itself into the art […]
Flash News: Miami in the NFT era – The Brafa is postponed – Historic record for Phillips [03/12/2021]
Art Basel Miami… in the NFT era A one-day symposium on NFTs, conferences in museums (notably with BEEPLE at the Bass Museum), special NFT offers everywhere, the chance to create your own NFTs… crypto-art has invaded Miami’s art fairs (ending December 5). Even before the official opening of the 2021 Miami Art Week, the 20th […]
Christie’s hammers $970 million in a week! [16/11/2021]
Last week Christie’s took $970 million from three sales and two very lively auction evenings. With 15 new auction records, 22 artists, from Van Gogh to Beeple, crossed the $10 million threshold. The whole week was animated by an augmented audience with the auctions being organized live from New York, but also from Hong Kong […]
Several young artists have dwarfed their estimates; Artprice takes a closer look [05/11/2021]
On 14 October 2021, just before its prestige Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London, Sotheby’s calculated the estimated value of the canvas I’ll Have What She’s Having (2020) by Flora Yukhnovich at $80,000 – $110,000. But the work finally sold for over $3 million. Nothing justifies this result 30 times higher than the estimates, if […]
The 3 most expensive Contemporary artists of the year so far [27/07/2021]
The fact that Jean-Michel Basquiat is still the most expensive Contemporary artists at auction is not surprising. The African-American star, who died in 1988, is to Contemporary art what Picasso is to Modern art. On the other hand, the logic behind the other two artists in the year’s top 3 auction Contemporary results is more […]
Mr Christie, before Christie’s… His early days [16/07/2021]
The officially recognised start date of Christie’s auction activity is Friday 5 December 1766 when Mr James Christie hosted a sale of ‘the household furniture, jewelry, plates, firearms, etc… property of a noble character (deceased)” in London. Among other items, the sale included a pair of sheets, two pillowcases and two chamber pots… a banal […]
Fred Forest vs Beeple – Major success at Phillips [18/06/2021]
Fred Forest more expensive than Beeple… On 15 June, Fred FOREST – a French artist familiar with initiatives highlighting the speculative mechanisms within the art market – sent ripples through the art world by offering an NFT (on the specialized NFT platform, Opensea) purposefully priced above the result fetched by Beeple’s now famous digital collage […]
Historic volume of transactions in the first quarter [20/04/2021]
Despite all the restrictions art market professionals have faced, Q1 2021 ended with a historic record in terms of the number of lots sold on the auction market. During the first quarter of 2021, more than 112,000 artworks changed hands in auction sales around the world. This remarkable figure illustrates the strong growth dynamic of […]
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 […]
News in brief: from Van Gogh… to Beeple [05/03/2021]
Beeple drives interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) market Will it end up being the most expensive digital artwork of all time? The First 5000 Days (2021) by Mike Winkelmann, aka ‘BEEPLE’, is currently skyrocketing in a Christie’s online auction. On Monday 1 March, four days after the start of the sale, this unique digital collage […]
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