Specialist Sales Entice Art Buyers – artmarketblog.com During times of crisis, art auction houses tend to get creative and start looking at new ways of encouraging sellers and enticing buyers. One of the tactics that the auction houses use to try and generate new business is to create new sale categories and types of specialist [...]
Private Collections and the 09 Art Market – artmarketblog.com There have not been any major auctions of art yet this year but the auctions that have been conducted are already giving clues as to what to expect in 2009. Two auctions of single owner private collections were conducted in January both of which were very [...]
Artprice Launches My Art Collection – artmarketblog.com Artprice has just announced the launch My Art Collection, the first free and confidential art portfolio management service. This service, now available to Artprice’s 1,300,000 subscribers is available as of today for professional or amateur art collectors anywhere in the world. http://web.artprice.com/portfolio/login.aspx However much you spend on art, [...]
Australian Art Market 08 Review Part 3 – artmarketblog.com Two important art world events took place in Australia in 2008 the first of which was the biennial Melbourne Art Fair and the second being the Sydney Biennale. The biennial Melbourne Art Fair took place from the 30 July – 3 August at the Royal Exhibition [...]
Sigmar Polke at Editions Schellmann – artmarketblog.com German artist Sigmar Polke is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential artists of the post-war generation. Polke is often grouped with other important German artists such as Keifer, Penck, Richter and Immendorf all of whom were part of the Neo-Expressionist movement. The Neo-Expressionist movement developed in [...]
An Important Message for Art Buyers – artmarketblog.com If you take a close look at the available data, information, opinions, analysis and reviews that relate to the art market you will find that a very large majority come from art market professionals. The same art market professionals whose livelihood depends on the ability to profit [...]
The Market for Neo-Impressionism – artmarketblog.com Neo-Impressionism is the specific name given to the Post-Impressionist work of Seurat and Signac and their followers. The work of the Neo-Impressionists is characterised by the use of tiny dots or dabs of paint which, when viewed from a distance, appear to the viewer as being mixed. The neo-impressionist [...]
Art Market Correction Survival Tactics – artmarketblog.com Let’s face it, art auctions are mainly about two things – money and excitement. Best suited to those buyers who don’t care what they buy as long as it is a potentially profitable bargain, art auctions are far more beneficial to the investor than to the collector. Auctions [...]
MYARTSPACE 2008 Scholarship Winners – artmarketblog.com MYARTSPACE (myartspace.com), the awesome online venue for the contemporary art world, has just announced the winners of the 2008 MYARTSPACE undergraduate cash scholarship competition. The scholarship is intended for students who exhibits exceptional artistic excellence in all mediums of the visual arts including photography and video, both contemporary and [...]
Jenny Holzer and Feminist Art – artmarketblog.com The work of Jenny Holzer, one of the most influential and most important artists of her generation, is currently the subject of a major retrospective that has been organised by the Chigago MCA and the Fondation Beyeler. The exhibition, titled “Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT” focuses on the last [...]
