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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
