Sotheby’s Clyfford Still Record Fails to Impress – artmarketblog.com Sotheby’s seems to have re-ignited confidence in the art market with the results of their Contemporary Art Evening Sale. But I for one won’t be celebrating just yet because all I see is a market that reacted to an extremely rare opportunity to acquire works by [...]
The Overlooked Italian Post-War Artist Domenico Gnoli – artmarketblog.com See part one here: http://www.artmarketblog.com/2011/11/01/rising-stars-of-italian-post-war-art-market-pt-1-artmarketblog-com/ When it comes to overlooked artistic talent, Italian born realist painter Dominico Gnoli (1933-1970) would have to be one of the most compelling. Born to an art historian father and artist mother, Gnoli never undertook formal training as a visual artist [...]
Re-evaluating the Canadian Art Market Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com The Canadian art market and the market for Canadian art exist within a particularly interesting framework that has limited the extent to which the market for Canadian art can explore its potential. Although many of Canada’s most famous and highly desirable artists sought to establish a [...]
Blacklots Launches Curated Online Art Auctions – artmarketblog.com As artprice.com prepare to enter the online auction arena, and artnet.com struggles to make their online art auction platform profitable, another online art auction startup has joined the fray. Blacklots.com is an online curated art auction platform for the resale and acquisition of contemporary art that utilises [...]
Artprice to Launch Online Art Auctions – artmarketblog.com Thanks to recent changes made to the French Code de Commerce, the France based art auction price database company artprice.com are now free to offer an online brokerage service. According to the Art Media Agency: “Problems faced on the Internet relating to the differences between brokerage and [...]
Contemporary Art Market Karma at Phillips de Pury Pt. 3 – artmarketblog.com My last two posts, parts one and two of ‘Contemporary Art Market Karma at Phillips de Pury’, provided an insight into the way auction house Phillips de Pury approach the contemporary art market niche that they have chosen to pursue. With this post, [...]
Contemporary Art Market Karma at Phillips de Pury Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com My last post was the beginning of my analysis of the auction house Phillips de Pury and their status in the current market. I finished that post by revealing one method that Phillips use to try and maintain as strong a presence as [...]
Contemporary Art Market Karma at Phillips de Pury Pt. 1 – artmarketblog.com Sotheby’s and Christie’s tend to pull the wool over the eyes of the market when they produce their “not so contemporary” art auctions which is why the contemporary art focused auction house Phillips de Pury is the one to watch when it comes [...]
Greek Financier Wins Picasso’s Lover in Art Auction Stoush – artmarketblog.com Greek financier Dimitri Mavrommatis added to his already impressive art buying history on the 21st of June when he purchased Picaso’s Femme assise, robe bleue at Christie’s London Impressionist and Modern Art sale for £17,961,250 against an estimate of 4,000,000 – 8,000,000. Bidding like a [...]
Questioning the Art Market – artmarketblog.com I was recently asked some questions about the art market for a magazine article and thought I would share my answers. Hope you enjoy !!! 1. Last year there was a trend for portrait pieces, why do you think this is? Although portraiture fell out of fashion, as it [...]
