Andy WARHOL: Kunstmarkt und Informationen über Andy WARHOL

Big means expensive… [13.01.2015]

In the history of human creation, large-scale creations have always fascinated, and artists have long sought to exploit the awe that generous dimensions inspire. From the Lascaux cave drawings to

The Top Ten hammer prices of 2014 [19.12.2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking.2014 was a year positively bursting with records. And yet the highest bid was still far below the peak achieved in 2013 – and naturally, we wonder why. This week, to shed more light on the situation, Artprice looks back at the Top Ten hammer prices of 2014.

The world’s most ”profitable” artists [15.12.2014]

With the art market at an all-time peak, Artprice.com takes a look at artists who generate the highest annual auction totals in the world and who thus represent a handsome source of income for auction operators. The latter, remember, are remunerated from fees charged to both the seller and the buyer.

The Contemporary Art bonanza continues… [18.11.2014]

At the finish line of the major November sales the American auction company, Sotheby’s, confirmed its leadership of the Impressionist & Modern segment with its best-ever sales total of $422.1 million including fees

November’s prestige sales of Contemporary Art [04.11.2014]

November is the traditional month for the major sales of Impressionist and Contemporary art in New York. Ahead of our analysis of the results of the Impressionist & Modern art sales in a future article, we take a preview of

Flash News: The Schieles of November – Christie’s in Shanghai – A Giacometti masterpiece at Sotheby’s [31.10.2014]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: The Schieles of November – Christie’s in Shanghai – A Giacometti masterpiece at Sotheby’s

Flash News: FIAC is back – Staying with Paris – the FIAC fringe – Paul-Durand Ruel: an art dealer in Paris [17.10.2014]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: FIAC is back – Staying with Paris – the FIAC fringe – Paul-Durand Ruel: an art dealer in Paris

Top Tens in Europe. Chapter 2: Belgium [26.09.2014]

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

One billion dollars of Contemporary Art in two evenings [20.05.2014]

New York’s prestige sales of Post-War & Contemporary Art on May 13 and 14 generated more than a billion dollars. Christie’s largely overshot its estimates with remarkably strong results.

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

Flash News : Matisse at the Tate Modern – Lucio Fontana in Paris – Contemporary Art in New York [02.05.2014]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: Matisse at the Tate Modern – Lucio Fontana in Paris – Contemporary Art in New York

Flash News : Bacon – Warhol – Ai Weiwei [18.04.2014]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: Death of Chu Teh Chun – Bernard Buffet – Pieter Brueghel the Younger

A billion dollars for three artists… [25.02.2014]

In 2013 the art market reached an unprecedented level of dynamism with its best-ever year-total in terms of auction revenue. The market’s increasingly prosperous high end is dominated by a small number of “trophy” signatures that sell for astronomical prices.

Roy Lichtenstein [18.02.2014]

Prices soar for works by the big names of twentieth century American art. In 2013 Andy WARHOL was confirmed as the planet’s most profitable artist and his disciple Roy LICHTENSTEIN followed the movement with his best-ever annual auction total.

Sales of American Art in New York: Hopper and Rockwell at their peaks [10.12.2013]

While Miami and its multitude of art fairs attracted all the elite of the Contemporary art scene, the Big Apple held its winter American Art sales*.

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.

The Top Ten of Nouveau Réalisme: Yves Klein [21.11.2013]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week we look at the top ten of Nouveau Réalisme, which is dominated by just one name: Yves Klein.

Christie’s, 12 November: best auction total ever recorded! [19.11.2013]

November 12, 2013 will go down in auction history. Christie’s prestige sale of Post-War and Contemporary art already posted an unusual ambition before the auction took place, with an overall estimate exceeding $500 million … a figure far beyond any previous sales total.

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.

Contemporary art in New York [18.07.2013]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the top 10 auction sales of contemporary art in New York.

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.

Phillips… the talent spotter [23.04.2013]

At a time when certain auction companies are declaring an increasing volume of private sales on the back of the growing quality and depth of their client files, others are exploiting the advantages of these files to enable young artists to test the auction market.

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.

The Hong Kong’s marathon [27.11.2012]

The official Hong Kong marathon is not until February… but the week of sales that just ended in the former British Colony has left art collectors and market players exhausted after some twenty auctions and at least as many exhibitions.

New York: historical records for sales of Post-War and Contemporary art [20.11.2012]

Flouting the generally unfavorable economic mood, this year’s autumn sales in New York managed to post a new all-time high. Far more buoyant than the Impressionist and Modern Art sales a week earlier, the Post-War & Contemporary segment once again posted the better results: proof that nothing seems capable of undermining the vitality of this safe-haven market.

Art Market News in Brief! [02.11.2012]

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

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.

Art Market News in Brief! [21.09.2012]