Articles and reports on the art market, including news of art fairs, auctions, galleries and artists
A few days ago Art Basel in collaboration with UBS presented the latest report "The Art Market 2023": the annual analysis of the global art market, signed by Clare McAndrew. According to the data reported, in 2022 the art market had a slight growth of 3 percent over the previous year, reaching $67.8 billion and reporting the [...]
Today Art Basel in collaboration with UBS presented its latest report "The Art Market 2022": the annual analysis of the global art market. The findings indicate that the market has recovered strongly in 2021, with sales reaching an estimated $65.1 billion in sales, surpassing pre-pandemic levels in 2019. This [...]
Live from London, on 8 July 2021 Christie's held "The Old Masters Evening Sale", an incredible auction dedicated to the great masters which, with just 46 lots, fetched a total of £45,083,250. At the same time, "The Exceptional Sale" was also held, an auction dedicated to art from antiquity to modernity which, with 30 lots, fetched a total of £45,083,250.
On 25 June, from New York, Phillips organised an auction dedicated to jewellery from major manufacturers such as Harry Winston, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Cellini, Tiffany&Co, Graff, Bulgari but also master watchmakers such as Rolex and many other elite jewellers. The piece that has undoubtedly focused much of the attention [...]
Christie's opened its "Art d'Asie" auction in Paris on 9 June, offering an unprecedented selection of works from European and Asian private collections spanning 3000 years of Asian history. Among the lots on display are important Buddhist artworks, archaic bronzes, porcelain from the Ming and Quing dynasties, jade sculptures, cloisonné enamels, [...].
Christie's New York has offered an online Andy Warhol auction entitled Machine Made from 19-27 May 2021. This is a completely innovative auction in that it features five unique NFTs of digital works created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, which were recovered in 2014 from some floppy disks now [...]
Sotheby's New York held its Contemporary Art Day Auction on 13 May 20201, including works from the post-war period to the present day. The large number of lots came from the Collection of Morris and Rita Pynoos and the Collection of Mrs John L Marion, including artists such as Alexander Calder, Joan Mitchell, Keith Haring, Harold Ancart, David Hockney, [...].
The Linz branch of Dorotheum held its "Spring Auction" on 4 May 2021 with no less than 466 lots. Featuring a wide variety of artists, the auction included paintings, carpets, books and various design objects; among them, the highest estimated lot was number 103, signed Fritz Aigner, which started from a [...]
Bonhams' New Bond Street office held its Contemporary Art Auction on 27 April 2021. Among the 29 lots, the one with the highest estimate was Albert Oehlen's "Untitled (Baum 18)" at £380,000-£580,000, eventually selling for £610,750. The catalogue also includes the neon work "Wash N' Set (Yellow)" signed Tschabalala Self [...]
From New York to Florence: the week's auction results 50 masterpieces of photography were auctioned at Sotheby's to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the auction house's photography auctions. Between the London and New York venues, masterpieces spanning the history between the two centuries were presented, including exceptional and rare works such as the [...]