Ex-Sotheby’s Heavyweights Launch New Online Art Auction Site – artmarketblog.com Two former high-ranking Sotheby’s employees have joined forces to launch a the online art auction venture The Auction Room, a middle-market venture catering to buyers and sellers of antiques, paintings, and other collectible items. Founded by George Bailey and Lucinda Blythe, The Auction Room (http://theauctionroom.com) [...]
Christie’s Claims First Independent Art Auction in Mainland China – artmarketblog.com Christie’s will become the first international art auction house to operate independently in China when they hold their first auctions in Shanghai beginning autumn 2013. The announcement by Christie’s comes six months after Sotheby’s were granted a license to conduct auctions in China in [...]
Sotheby’s to Help TEFAF Launch China Art Fair – artmarketblog.com How does a global art fair infiltrate a notoriously insular art market without appearing to tread on the toes of local businesses? Develop an initiative with a business that has already developed a presence in China, that’s how. World renowned art fair TEFAF have just [...]
Paddle8 Launch Changing The World Through Art Auction – artmarketblog.com Changing The World Through Art is the single most important source of funding for the life-changing opera & art programming that The Time In Children’s Arts Initiative provides to some of the country’s youngest and most at-risk children as part of their regular school day. [...]
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 [...]
A Period of Maturation for the American Art Market, Pt. 1 – artmarketblog.com Although the art market in America has showed signs of strength and resilience over the past couple of years, the focus has been mainly on the sort of globally fashionable contemporary art that is typically pursued by wealthy socialites and celebrities. One [...]
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 [...]
The Lure of the Long Lost: A White Owl and William James Webbe – artmarketblog.com When British teacher Jane Cordy stumbled across a long-lost painting by the talented Pre-Raphaelite artist William James Webbe in her attic, she was shocked to find out from an expert at auction house Christie’s that it was worth upwards of [...]
The Beautiful Art Revival: A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites – artmarketblog.com For as long as I have been writing about the art market, the word “beauty” has been thought of by many as a sort of dirty word – especially to the cutting-edge contemporary art crowd many of whom would cringe at the its mere [...]
What Art Crime Says About South African Art Market – artmarketblog.com It is interesting how much of a connection there is between art thefts and global art trends. By analysing instances of art theft one can gain quite a substantial and valuable insight into the direction the global art market is taking and how different [...]
