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Sotheby’s: memorable results in 2022 [10.01.2023]

2022 turned out to be an epic year on the art auction market with lots of remarkable masterpieces generating lots of new records. Artmarket by Artprice focuses on some of the results that made 2022 such an extraordinary year. At the end of 2022, Sotheby’s posted an overall turnover of 8 billion dollars (i.e. $400,000 […]

Works collected by Christo and Jeanne-Claude arrive at Sotheby’s [05.02.2021]

Like all artists, CHRISTO (1935-2020) and Jean-Claude fraternized with other artists and in some cases became very close friends. And like most artists, they also acquired and surrounded themselves with artworks they particularly liked. Christo and Jeanne Claude together acquired some exceptional pieces during their lives including works by Andy WARHOL, Marcel DUCHAMP, Lucio FONTANA […]

Flash News: Art Geneva – Asia and its fairs – Nahon’s art collection [01.02.2019]

Art Geneva is growing This year Art Geneva will host 90 galleries versus 86 in 2018. The fair is expanding, but according to its director Thomas Hug, who has steered the fair towards a solid reputation in seven years of existence, the fair wishes to maintain a ‘reasonable’ format. The fair’s good reputation is primarily […]

Günther Uecker’s bristling œuvre [04.12.2018]

“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 […]

Focus on Bernar Venet [28.08.2018]

As preparations for the new art world calendar (September – June, at least in the northern hemisphere) start to emerge, one of the most interesting upcoming cultural events in France is a Bernar Venet retrospective to open on 21 September at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon. The Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art has […]

Yves Klein. Top whack for ethereal art [17.07.2018]

Yves Klein – who would have been 90 in 2018 – is one of the most sought-after French artists of all time. Yves KLEIN (1928-1962) is in fact the most expensive French artist from the second half of the 20th century. In many respects he owes his exceptional market success to his adventurous and open […]

Flash News: Paper Positions – The Fondation Carmignac [20.04.2018]

Paper Positions kicks off in Berlin Paper Positions – focusing on all forms of creativity on (or in) paper – opens April 26-29 in the superb atrium of the Deutsche Telekom Hauptstadtrepräsentanz. This year the fair will present drawings, collages, cutouts, paper-folding, art books, written works and 3-D creations. Of modest dimensions – just 46 […]

China’s art market is opening… example in Shanghai [02.11.2016]

As the years go by, China’s art market is gradually opening up to Western art, driven partly by the initiatives of Western auction houses who inform and advise Chinese collectors and partly by an increasingly energetic museum policy aimed at promoting the best Western art to the Chinese public. Although cultural diversity is, a priori, […]

Sale of Claude Berri’s collection… Part 1 announced [20.09.2016]

The art market news this autumn 2016 is dominated by sales of collections. These include works acquired by David Bowie, the presidential couple Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Daniel and Eliane Brollo and Prince Yusupov. There will also be a series of five sales to disperse the works of French film director and producer Claude Berri […]

Top 10 works of sculpture by famous painters [04.12.2015]

Another Friday Top. Every other Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week, the ten most expensive sculptures of 2015, created by famous painters, come under close scrutiny.

A forward look at prices at the high end of the upcoming Contemporary art sales in London [16.06.2015]

London’s major Contemporary art sales are looming closer. The three evening sales – for which the auctioneers reserve their most prestigious lots – will be held from June 29 to July 1 at Phillips, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, in that order.

Prices soar for Italian artists [21.04.2015]

Christie’s is preparing a sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Milan featuring 88 lots that reflect a number of upward price trends for a selection of Italian artists.

Contemporary Art in New York: the star lots [06.05.2014]

For Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the May sales represent one of the high points of the calendar year. The two market giants generate at least $500 million in two days of sales and usually post increasingly spectacular auction records. In May 2012, their prestige Contemporary Art sales generated $578.3 million from 102 adjudications – a new record at the time – but quickly buried the following year when the two companies’ combined turnover from the same sales reached $691.7 million, with the

Top ten prints in 2013 [06.12.2013]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the Top Ten prints sold in 2013.

Christie’s in Shanghai [01.10.2013]

In the long-running global race between the world’s most powerful auction houses, Christie’s has just won one of the laps with its first sale in Shanghai.

The most popular Frenchies [16.07.2013]

With the exception of the Impressionist and Modern masters, there are few French artists at the high-end of the international auction market.

Contemporary Art: ascending price indexes [01.07.2013]

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

Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London: trends [24.06.2013]

Judging by the unsold rates (16% and 18%) the two sales in London on 18 and 19 June produced honourable results. These rates reflect a buoyant level of global demand with

New York: high-end Contemporary results explode [21.05.2013]

Like last year, New York’s Contemporary sales have generated larger figures than the Impressionist & Modern sales in the same month.

Major fairs and prestige sales in New York [07.05.2013]

The calendar of New York’s big art fairs is pegged to that of city’s prestige sales.

Paris – Hong Kong [18.12.2012]

On 3 December 2012 Christie’s Paris held a Contemporary Art sale with works ranging from the 1950s to the early 2000s.

Top 10: French Artists [12.10.2012]

Once a fortnight Artprice draws up a ranking of theme-based auction results. This week our focus is on the ten best results over the past eight months for French artists of all generations.

September sales: French collections [18.09.2012]

In a few days the Paris branches of Christie’s and Sothey’s will each be hosting sales of important art collections of French art. On 24 September, Sotheby’s will be offering 100 works from Marcel Brient’s Contemporary art collection and three days later Christie’s will be selling Hélène Rochas’ carefully selected collection.

Best auction results in H1 2012 [31.08.2012]

Friday is Top day! Every alternate Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the top ten auctions since January 2012.

Georges Mathieu – The aesthetics of speed [17.07.2012]

Inventor of extraordinary geometric shapes inspired by calligraphy and oriental arts, Georges Mathieu, who died in June 2012 at the age of 91, was arguably one of the great masters of the second half of the 20th century.

The New York sales can be summarized in one word: Record! [15.05.2012]

A new record for Post-War & Contemporary Art sales has been set.If we just take Christie’s and Sotheby’s prestige sales of 8 and 9 May 2012, the 102 masterpieces sold generated roughly $578.3 million in revenue and 18 new artist’s records.

Nudes between January 2011 and April 2012 [11.05.2012]

Another Friday Top in Artprice’s alternate Friday series of auction rankings. This week, the top 10 auction results for Nudes between January 2011 and May 2012.

Munch’s The Scream raises market ceiling and overturns art media hierarchy [04.05.2012]

Wednesday, May 2, the art market acquired a new all-time record for the sale of an artwork at a public auction when Sotheby’s New York sold of MUNCH’s The Scream for $107m ($119.9m including fees).

Contemporary & Post-War Art sales, key info…. [02.05.2012]

Christie’s and Sotheby’s will be hosting their evening sales of Contemporary & Post-War Art on 7 and 8 May in New York.

Yves Klein vs. Roy Lichtenstein? [11.04.2012]

The highlight of Christie’s prestigious May sales in New York will be a legendary work by Yves Klein which both Christie’s and the media hope will generate a new world record for the artist.

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