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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
French Art Market Growing in Leaps and Bounds – artmarketblog.com The French art market seems to have taken a turn for the best in 2012 with the Parisian gallery scene exhibiting a renewed vitality and vigour. The announcement that Larry Gagosian would be opening a second Paris space at Le Bourget airport and the opening [...]
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 [...]
