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 [...]
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 [...]
Video: Skate’s 2012/13 Art Market Overview – artmarketblog.com Skate’s http://skatepress.com/ starts running a series of Art Industry Hangouts with art market experts, covering a range of topics and using the technology provided to us by Google with its recent Hangouts feature. Today’s conversation is a high-level overview of the trends and events that happened in [...]
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 [...]
A Penchant for Posters Leads to Auction Record – artmarketblog.com The recent publicity surrounding the depth of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec poster collection held by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), which is currently being exhibited as part of their major Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition, got me thinking about the investment value of advertising posters. Providing the [...]
Last Chance to Invest in Desirable Artists at Royal Academy Auction – artmarketblog.com Works of art by some amazing artists are currently being sold by Britain’s Royal Academy. RA Now is a major exhibition and sale of work by 121 current Royal Academicians and Honorary Royal Academicians. It offers a unique opportunity to buy work donated [...]
Bonhams Sale of Richard Diebenkorn Print Leaves Market Green With Envy – artmarketblog.com The sale of Richard Diebenkorn’s etching Green, 1986 for US$ 338,500 inc. premium against an estimate of US$ 200,000 – 300,000 by Bonhams in San Francisco on the 23rd of October was the second highest price achieved for a print by the [...]
The Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seed Melee – artmarketblog.com I was recently informed by a representative from one of the first galleries to purchase a share of Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seed installation, titled Kui Hua Za (Sunflower Seeds), that they had purchased the work in 2009 on the understanding that it was a limited edition of [...]
