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The French art market looks buoyant ahead of Art Paris [19/03/2024]

Since Brexit Paris has been re-emerging as a key marketplace for Modern and Contemporary art, laying the foundations for the international promotion of French artists: Art Paris, of which Artprice is a loyal partner, is participating in this effort along with BNP Paribas. Our latest global art market report – The Art Market in 2023 – […]

London sales: main results [15/03/2024]

A week after London’s first major – and highly anticipated – fine art auction sales of the year, Artmarket by Artprice looks at the sales’ most notable results, which were, overall, solid enough to reassure the art market. Sotheby’s On March 6 and 7, Sotheby’s evening sales of Modern and Contemporary art, including their ‘The […]

Joan Mitchell: more than ever in demand [12/03/2024]

A poetry and nature enthusiast, Joan Mitchell was one of the first internationally recognized female artists in the middle of the last century, and her current success is particularly emblematic of the revaluation of women artists. Born in the United States to a poet and an art-enthusiast doctor, Joan MITCHELL (1925-1992) hesitated for a while […]

THE ART MARKET IN 2023 [07/03/2024]

Artprice by Artmarket.com & ARAA (Artron Research Academy of Arts) In 2023 global art auction revenue shrank with a loss of momentum at the market’s high-end; but behind this relatively predictable decline, the auction world threw up a number of surprises and plenty of reasons to remain optimistic. Our 2023 Art Market Report Report provides […]

Hokusai featured in New York [05/03/2024]

A year after Christie’s hammered a record $2.75 million for a print of Hukosai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, the same auctioneer is putting Hokusai in the spotlight of its spring sales with an exceptional set of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji to be sold on 19 March during Asia Week in New York. HOKUSAI’s Great […]

Flash news: Fernando Botero, Françoise Gilot and David Hockney in the next sales [01/03/2024]

Eleven works by Botero at auction This is an exciting time to be buying or selling works by the great Colombian artist Fernando BOTERO who died last September. In 2023, he was ranked among the world’s 50 best-performing artists at auction with sales of almost $39m including a new personal best of $5.1m achieved last […]

Julie Mehretu in the world’s Top 100 [27/02/2024]

At 52, the Ethiopian-born artist became one of the world’s top 100 in 2023 A gifted drawer as a child, Julie MEHRETU began to dream of being an artist at Kalamazoo College, a small art school in the American Midwest. Michigan is now home to this budding artist, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When she […]

Art Karlsruhe opens its doors [23/02/2024]

For this year’s edition of the not-to-be-missed German fair Art Karlsruhe (22-25 February 2024), its new director Kristian Jarmuschek answers all of the Artmarket team’s questions. What is the state of the art market in Germany? What are the strengths of the country’s largest artistic centres: Cologne, Berlin and Karlsruhe? The art market in Germany […]

Tribute to Günter Brus, last representative of Viennese Actionism, who has died at the age of 85 [20/02/2024]

After the death of Hermann Nitsch in 2022, we have now also lost Günter Brus – the last representative of Viennese Actionism – who died on 10 February 2024 at the same time as a retrospective exhibition of his work celebrating his 85th birthday at the Günter Brus Museum (the ‘Bruseum’) in the eastern Austrian […]

The Outsider Art Fair returns with Creative Growth as guest of honor [16/02/2024]

Outsider Art Fair (OAF), the only fair dedicated to self-taught artists, is preparing to open its 32nd edition in New York. The event will run from February 29 to March 3, 2024 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan with 63 exhibitors from 32 cities in eight countries. Since its inception in 1993, the Outsider Art […]

Carl Andre: tribute and controversy [13/02/2024]

A few weeks ago, Carl André, a major figure in the Minimalist Art movement but tried for the murder of Ana Mendieta, died at the age of 88.. In the press release announcing Andre’s passing, the Paula Cooper Gallery (with whom the artist had worked since 1964) recalls that “Carl Andre redefined the parameters of […]

Flash News: Hauser and Wirth in Hong Kong; masterpieces by Magritte and Klimt soon up for auction [09/02/2024]

The attraction of Hong Kong continues to grow with Hauser and Wirth opening a new outlet in the city In March 2023, the auction house Phillips inaugurated its new Asian headquarters in a superb building in Hong Kong, a vibrant market hub whose overall turnover from art auction sales has tripled in fifteen years. This […]

Mixed start to the year in New York for Old Masters [06/02/2024]

Religious subjects, battle scenes, still lifes, portraits… Sotheby’s and Christie’s hosted their first major New York sales of 2024 last week, dedicated to Old Master artworks. Not easy to predict the reception of precious works by Old Masters… From one day to the next, the market has been sending contradictory signals, achieving very satisfactory results […]

Marc Chagall at the Pompidou Center [30/01/2024]

  The eminent Franco-Belarusian painter Marc CHAGALL is currently the subject of an exceptional exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris. Titled Chagall à l’œuvre, the exhibition highlights a set of works that was donated to the museum in 2022 by the painter’s granddaughters, Bella and Meret Meyer. It includes 127 drawings, 5 ceramics and 7 […]

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 […]

Aili Jia, new star of Chinese art [24/01/2024]

Major collectors of Contemporary art who follow the Gagosian closely will undoubtedly be familiar with the work of Aili Jia, who, this year, was among the 200 most successful artists on the global auction market (all creative periods combined). We take a look back over the extraordinary rise of this 45-year-old artist who was born […]

Nominees for the 2024 Marcel Duchamp Prize [16/01/2024]

The ADIAF – host organization of the annual Marcel Duchamp Prize (a key event in France’s Contemporary art sphere) – announced its 4-artist shortlist for 2024 last week at Artcurial. Endowed with 90,000 euros, including a prize of 35,000 euros for the winner (to be announced on 17 October 2024), this award puts the nominated […]

The 3 male artists under 40 in 2023 [12/01/2024]

The world’s best fine art auction result in 2023 in the category of artists born after 1983 goes to Matthew WONG’s River at Dusk (黃昏的河流) which fetched the exceptional result of $6.66 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Three years ago, the same work was acquired at Phillips for $4.7 million, also in Hong Kong. While Matthew […]

The best results in the Modern art segment in 2023 [09/01/2024]

Picasso, Klimt, Bacon, Rothko, Kandinsky, Magritte and Modigliani… the market for Modern art is undeniably the segment most likely to trigger the most spectacular auction results, and the only segment capable of generating no less than 16 results above 100 million dollars (in 2023) for works by the most famous artists born between 1860 and […]

Three women artists under 40 on the art market in 2023 [05/01/2024]

Three women – whose work redefines what we already know about abstraction and figuration – are already eliciting 7-digit auction results (in USD) although they are only in their thirties. While the reputation of the galleries supporting them has clearly played a role in the explosion of their prices on the secondary market, the singularity […]

Henry Darger: the posthumous fate of an extraordinary œuvre [02/01/2024]

Fifty years ago, Henry Darger died alone, poor and unknown, but today he is one of the most famous and highly regarded artists in ‘Outsider Art’. Although the term was used by André Breton in the 1920s, the expression “art brut” (which subsequently became known as Outsider Art in English) was essentially popularized by the […]

Fabienne Verdier’s spiritual-truth-seeking œuvre has found its way in the art market [29/12/2023]

Veritable breaths of fresh air in today’s creative universe, Fabienne Verdier’s almost minimalist works are being revalued on the auction market. At the beginning of 2023, Fabienne Verdier enjoyed a major exhibition of her work that was mounted in dialogue with the superb collection of Old and Modern masters in Colmar’s Unterlinden Museum. The exhibition […]

African art on the art market: calm after the storm [26/12/2023]

“Cautious” is probably the best way to describe the art market’s current mood with respect, notably, to Contemporary African artists. Despite solid prices still being hammered for major Modern signatures and for some very ‘museum-visible’ Contemporaries, auction results have cooled off for many of the artists who were intensely coveted last year. The urgency of […]

The rise of Hernan Bas [22/12/2023]

At 45 years old, Hernan BAS is among the most sought-after painters of his generation and already has four auction results above the million-dollar threshold to his name, including one hammered in 2023. His paintings of solitary young men – currently showing at the Bass Museum in Miami (his hometown) – bear witness to a […]

Yoshitomo Nara, Asia’s most expensive Contemporary artist [19/12/2023]

A leading figure in Japanese creation, Yoshitomo Nara has established himself in collections around the world with, as his only subject, a little girl with big eyes. Yoshitomo Nara became a famous artist with a single emblematic subject: an immediately recognizable child with stylized features, presented against a neutral background. His drawings are considered to […]

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 […]

Vera Molnár, hommage to a pioneer [12/12/2023]

Vera Molnár used computers to create art for over fifty years. She died on December 7 last, just a few weeks before the opening of an exhibition to celebrate her 100th birthday at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Vera Molnár was the first woman to use algorithms to produce her works and […]

The largest Velázquez painting on the art market promises to fetch the best result ever hammered for an Old Spanish work [08/12/2023]

Painted in the 1620s-1630s, during a period of transformation in the career of Diego VELASQUEZ (1599-1660), the two-meter-high portrait depicts Isabelle de Bourbon, the daughter of the French King, Henry IV, before her marriage with the King of Spain, Philip IV. This prestigious painting by the great Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, which will be auctioned […]

The latest Hong Kong results from Phillips and Christie’s [05/12/2023]

Having hammered $2.4 million from Ultra-contemporary art at Phillips and $104 million from Modern & Contemporary art at Christie’s, the latest Hong Kong sales lived up to expectations. On 26 November, Phillips hosted its first Asian edition of its “New Now” sale in Hong Kong, bringing together Contemporary art and design work from the 20th […]

Works by Sanyu in upcoming Hong Kong sales [28/11/2023]

Christie’s Hong Kong is preparing its last major Hong Kong sales of the year at the city’s Convention and Exhibition Centre after roadshowing the works on offer throughout the region. In the evening of 28 November, the series of sales will conclude with a session reserved for 20th and 21st Century Art, with – as […]

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