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French art market returns to form in 2006 [04.02.2007]

Having missed out on the art market’s growth in 2002-2004, France is finally booming again. Turnover rose by 42% in 2006 to EUR 330 million, while volume sales advanced by 14%. Prices were up by 9% over twelve months though this is still 40% below their 1990 level.

Christie’s leads the public auction market in 2006 [22.11.2006]

USD 866 million from six sessions – that is the total revenue figure generated by Christie’s from its two thematic auctions held in New York this November, Impressionist & Modern Art and Post-War & Contemporary Art. The sum is an unprecedented figure in the history of auction results. By comparison, Sotheby’s generated USD 476 million from auctions with exactly the same themes.

TOP 10 ARTISTS [05.02.2006]

The Top 10 artists grossed USD 576 million in 2005, compared to USD 393 million in 2003, a figure that represents 13.6% of the total art auction market. Unusually, a contemporary artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and an old master, Canaletto, were among the top sellers. The top three names however are unchanged…

The Lyon Contemporary Art Biennial in numbers [19.09.2005]

The 8th Contemporary Art Biennial in Lyon is open to the public from 14 September to 31 December 2005. Entitled “Expérience de la Durée”, this year’s event exhibits the work of 61 artists and includes 25 pieces commissioned by the organisers. This collection will essentially be displayed at 5 different locations: La Sucrière, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Institute of Conteporary Art at Villeurbanne, le Rectangle and fort Saint-Jean.

Performance of Artprice’s standardised art market place [01.08.2005]

By 31 July 2005, just five months after its launch, Artprice’s standardised marketplace had hosted a total of 26,701 works of art offered for sale. Their value, excluding a very large number of major pieces offered by sellers at undisclosed prices, totalled EUR 521,754,069.

The Top 10 Artists by turnover [25.07.2005]

The first half of 2005 proved very eventful for the art market. After several months of high bidding (251 works breached the USD 1 million mark) and a rise in global Fine Art sales turnover of more than 5%, there has been a major change in Artprice’s Top 10 ranking of artists by revenue.

5,000 works of art permanently on offer on the new standardised marketplace [06.04.2005]

After only two months since its launch, Artprice’s new marketplace for artwork continues to boom. In March, Artprice’s Classified Ads section counted 450,000 visitors. At the beginning of April 2005, over 5,000 works by almost 4,000 artists were up for sale every day on this marketplace! By way of comparison, Art Basel and the FIAC each exhibit 1,500 artists.

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.

Artprice TOP 10 : how do the art market heavyweights measure up in 2004? [03.03.2005]

Every year Artprice publishes a ranking of artists on the basis of the sales turnover generated by their works at auctions.

Artprice Top 5 [06.09.2004]

Each artist makes his/her own, large or small, contribution to the total market. And ranking them by auction turnover gives a good indication of the markets conditions, preferences and trends. Each year Artprice ranks artists by this criterion.

International contemporary art driven by Phillips, De Pury & Luxembourg [23.11.2003]

The contemporary art market has been doing fairly well of late, and the last big auctions of the year have reaffirmed the trend. The wealthiest US investors are continuing to support new art. Record after record has been falling in New York, and not only for American artists.

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.

How do the art market heavyweights measure up? [15.06.2003]

The world’s top ten artists by turnover (see rankings) generated USD506 million at auction in 2002. With only 1.7% of total transaction volumes they represent 20% of the art market.

Contemporary art auctions in New York reassure the market with 34 records in three days [24.11.2002]

In a tense economic climate, contemporary art auctions in New York are proving stronger than modern art and impressionist art sales. The evening auctions may have been unexceptional. But Sotheby’s and Christie’s still managed some reassuring surprises, generally in the less prestigious later sessions, when prices for some artists showed real growth and some of them turned out to be impressive records.

Gerhard Richter: at the peak of contemporary art [29.10.2002]

Gerhard RICHTER has been all over the auction rooms lately. Since the exhibition “Gerhard Richter: 40 years of painting” opened, 80 pieces have been offered for auction and prices are still rising (+67% between January and June 2002), although none this year has had the quality to beat the record set 15 May 2001: USD4.9 million for Drei Kerzen (Three Candles).

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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