Sotheby’s London Confirm Private Sales Gallery – artmarketblog.com The Art Market Blog has obtained confirmation that Sotheby’s London will be taking a space at 31 st George Street in London that will be dedicated to hosting private selling exhibitions. In the Autumn of 2011, Sotheby’s New York launched a newly-constructed gallery space within their York [...]
20×200 Suspended and Haunch of Venison Abandoned – artmarketblog.com Well, what a week it has been. First of all, art dealer extraordinaire Jen Bekman is rumoured to be in the process of disconnecting herself from the online limited edition print sales website 20×200 she founded in 2007. Visiting the 20×200 reveals a message that says [...]
A More Mature American Art Market Emerges, Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com As I wrote in my last post, over the last year or so the American art market has shown significant signs of development and maturation evinced by a greater focus on the work of artists (painters mainly) active during the early to mid 20th [...]
Is Uruguay the Art Market’s Next Big Thing? – artmarketblog.com On the 10th of January 2013, Uruguayan auction house Castells held a sale of Modern and Contemporary Art at their Montevideo saleroom which for all intense and purposes was a big success. The top price of the sale went to a marble sculpture by renowned [...]
Eric Clapton’s Gerhard Richter Sets Auction Record for Living Artist – artmarketblog.com A painting by Gerhard Richter from the collection of Eric Clapton has been sold for 21,321,250 GBP ($34.19 million) at auction in London setting a new auction record for a work by a living artist. Acquired by Clapton from Sotheby’s New York Contemporary [...]
Q&A With Managing Partners of Liquid Rarity Exchange Part 2 – artmarketblog.com Liquid Rarity Exchange (LRE) is a business method patent development and licensing company that has been granted the exclusive rights to the establishment of a new and innovative financial exchange archetype based on the securitization of tangible assets – in other words, a [...]
Securing Reputable Short-Term Loans Against Fine Art – artmarketblog.com In the past, obtaining a short term loan against a valuable asset has usually required a visit to the “traditional” pawn broker as there really weren’t any alternative, “high class” routes for obtaining a quick, reputable short-term loan against a valuable asset. But there is now [...]
Will Export Ban Devalue Picasso’s £50m “Child with a Dove”? – artmarketblog.com The decision to slap a temporary export ban on Picasso’s Child with a Dove following the announcement that Christie’s had been asked to find a buyer for the painting by the Aberconway family in Wales, who are the current owners of the painting, [...]
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Cheaper Alternatives Trump Megabuck Art Auction Favourites – artmarketblog.com Christie’s, Phillips de Pury and Sotheby’s have had a stellar few weeks producing new auction records for a long list of artists including Mark Rothko, Ai Weiwei, Roy Lichtenstein, Edvard Munch, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter and Cy Twombly. Included in those artist [...]
