Location Matters for Art Sales- artmarketblog.com At a recent art auction that I attended here in Australia a couple of prints by Sybil Andrews attracted huge amounts of interest resulting in both selling for well above their estimates. This wasn’t really surprising considering the level of interest that there seems to be in the work [...]
Hard Art Market Data Tells Real Story – artmarketblog.com Dissecting Christie’s Feb 09 Art Auction Pt. 3 See part one here: http://artmarketblog.com/2009/02/17/dissecting-christies-feb-09-art-auction-pt-1-artmarketblogcom/ See part two here: http://artmarketblog.com/2009/03/08/dissecting-christie%e2%80%99s-feb-09-art-auction-pt-2-artmarketblogcom/ A few weeks ago I posted details of the sold lots from the Christie’s February 2009 Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale along with details relating to previous [...]
Artprice’s TOP 10 ranking 2008 – artmarketblog.com Every year Artprice publishes its ranking of artists based on auction revenue. At the end of 2007 the figures were remarkable: the market’s Top 10 had generated a combined total of $1.8bn, up no less than 50% on the previous year’s total. In 2008 the total was $100m [...]
Adam Reeder on Your Mac Life – artmarketblog.com Sculptor Adam Reeder whose work I featured on this blog not long ago has been interviewed by Your Mac Life, the internet’s number 1 Mac broadcast. To listen to the interview follow this link: http://yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov and, if you don’t want to listen to the whole show, fast [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nicholas Forrest 0422699730 artmarketblog@gmail.com http://www.australianartmarket.com Australian Art Market Blog Goes Live Sydney, NSW, 17/3/2009 – Sydney, Australia based art market analyst and art critic Nicholas Forrest has announced the launch of a blog dedicated to the Australian art market. The blog will feature a no holds barred analysis of the Australian [...]
Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 5 – artmarketblog.com 2. Percentage of lots sold by value continued In part four of this series I looked at the second of two methods that auction houses use to calculate the percentage of lots sold by value. As I mentioned in part 4, the method of calculating the percentage [...]
Jedediah Caesar Limited Edition – artmarketblog.com In my last post about the upcoming Orange County Art Museum art auction I highlighted a work by Jedediah Caesar that I thought would be a good buy. I hadn’t really taken much notice of Caesar’s work until I wrote that post but after writing the post I was [...]
Orange County Museum Art Auction – artmarketblog.com The Orange County Museum of Art will be holding their 2009 auction of contemporary art on the 28th of March at 7:30pm. The live auction will begin at 8:30 pm but bids can be placed online for selected items up until the day before the live auction. More [...]
Social Networking for Art Collectors – artmarketblog.com Social networks are all the rage at the moment so I thought that I would put together a list of the top ten social networks that would be of benefit to art collectors and art investors. Joining a social network gives you access to the knowledge of other [...]
Dissecting Christie’s Feb 09 Art Auction Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com A few weeks ago I posted the first half of the results from the Christie’s February 2009 Impressionist and Modern Art auction along with information relating to whether each lot had been sold at auction previously and if it had, when it was sold and [...]
