What the Art Market has to say about David HOCKNEY (1937)

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London sales: main results [15 Mar 2024]

A week after London’s first major – and highly anticipated – fine art auction sales of the year, Artmarket by Artprice looks at the sales’ most notable results, which were, overall, solid enough to reassure the art market. Sotheby’s On March 6 and 7, Sotheby’s evening sales of Modern and Contemporary art, including their ‘The […]

Flash news: Fernando Botero, Françoise Gilot and David Hockney in the next sales [01 Mar 2024]

Eleven works by Botero at auction This is an exciting time to be buying or selling works by the great Colombian artist Fernando BOTERO who died last September. In 2023, he was ranked among the world’s 50 best-performing artists at auction with sales of almost $39m including a new personal best of $5.1m achieved last […]

Hockney, 10th best-selling artist in the world in 2023 [15 Sep 2023]

Demand for David Hockney’s work is growing rapidly and his price index has risen by 562% since the start of the millennium. On 21 September Phillips in London will be hosting another auction entirely dedicated to the work of British artist David HOCKNEY following a first sale that generated more than GBP 6.6 million (±$8.2 […]

Prints: The Sale of the Century… one of the most important collections of prints ever put up for auction [28 Apr 2023]

Christie’s had already started the season well: its sales of Contemporary prints were marked by BANKSY’s NOLA (Green Rain) which fetched $184,000 in London and David HOCKNEY’s Walking Past Two Chairs which sold for $57,600 in New York. Then there were the good results in its Prints and Multiples online sale that generated a total […]

London & New York: star lots announced [20 Sep 2022]

The next major prestige art auctions will be held in October. In recent days, the auction houses have been revealing their star lots to whet collectors’ appetites. The complete catalogs are not yet available online, but, as usual, the auction houses are giving some clues about the forthcoming Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales in […]

Top 10 auction results around the world in Q1 2022 [08 Apr 2022]

During the first quarter of 2022, more than 200 artworks fetched over a million dollars at auctions around the globe. At Sotheby’s the key signatures were Magritte, Botticelli, Monet and Hockney, while prestige sales at Christie’s were above all animated by an incredible canvas by Franz Marc, a triptych by Francis Bacon and a couple […]

Sotheby’s sales dominated by Magritte [08 Mar 2022]

On 2 March, Sotheby’s prestige sales of Modern and Contemporary Art in London were dominated by several paintings by Claude Monet, three works by Banksy (from the collection of singer Robbie Williams) and, above all, a masterpiece by René Magritte which generated by far the best result. $79.5 million: René Magritte’s new auction record A […]

The top-selling British artists in 2021 [21 Dec 2021]

Continuing our series on top-selling artists at auction by nationality, this week Artprice looks at the year’s 10 best auction results for British artists (all creative periods combined). Peter Doig, Francis Bacon, Banksy, Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Hurvin Anderson share the British Top 10 with a clear lead from Peter Doig, who generated the […]

Yet another white glove at Phillips! [29 Jun 2021]

After the excellent results at its Hong Kong sale with Poly auction on 7 and 8 June, the British auction company hosted yet another ‘white glove’ sale (all lots sold) on 23 June in New York, generating a total of $118.2 million. For Jean-Paul Engelen and Robert Manley, heads of 20th Century and Contemporary art […]

Beeple, from crypto-success to mega-stardom [13 Apr 2021]

To see Mike Winkelmann – shirt & sweater, small glasses and greying temples – you would have no idea that this ‘normal family man’ appearance hides the imagination of Beeple, a hallucinated world, populated by Hillary Clinton cyborgs, Mark Zuckerberg zombies and futuristic starships in vertical robotic cities. So… apart from being the most bankable […]

Top results in 2020 [11 Dec 2020]

The years go by… but are never quite the same… Bacon, Hockney and Rothko, who were already in the Top 10 results of 2019, are admittedly still present this year, but Claude Monet and Jeff Koons are absent. The latter two (very different) artists generated a record for Impressionism record at $110.7 million (Claude Monet’s […]

Nicolas Party helps resuscitate art market [15 Sep 2020]

Ludic and colourful, the work of this Swiss artist is attracting the attention of international collectors.   Nicolas PARTY was born in Lausanne in 1980 and now lives between Brussels and New York. Exhibited by several major international galleries and museums, last year he became one of the youngest recruits at Hauser & Wirth, a highly […]

Pop Art is still popular! [31 Jul 2020]

.. . . Yes indeed… On 10 July last, Christie’s organized its first ever major ‘worldwide’ auction, baptised ONE. Thanks to streaming technology, ONE took place via 4 consecutive sessions in Hong Kong, Paris, London and New York, and it grossed nearly $421 million in just four hours. Although none of the works sold above […]

David Hockney makes the biggest splash in London… [17 Feb 2020]

On 11 February David Hockney’s The Splash sold for £23 million ($31.2 million) in London – at more than eight times its 2006 price – taking Sotheby’s total revenue from its prestige Contemporary Art sale to $120 million, substantially ahead of Christie’s $72.7 million total from its equivalent session the following day (12 February). Before […]

London kicks off the 2020 calendar [04 Feb 2020]

With the UK’s divorce from the EU having just been formalised, the Art Market is in full swing in London with the first prestige sales of the year. This Tuesday (4 Feb) and tomorrow (5 Feb), Sotheby’s and Christie’s will be hosting the first major Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist sales of 2020, proposing works by […]

Artgenève, interview with Thomas Hug [21 Jan 2020]

Although Artgenève has continued to grow over the decade, it is still a fair on a human scale compared with the Basel juggernaut. Created in 2012 by Thomas Hug, this event opens its ninth edition on 30 January with just under 90 exhibitors. The return of major galleries (including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Tornabuoni) and […]

The gender (im)balance in the art world: key figures [03 Sep 2019]

In the fast-evolving segment of the Contemporary Art market, the relative value of works by female artists vs. male artists is growing rapidly. Several important women artists recently refreshed their personal auction records, including Lee Krasner (The Eye Is the First Circle, $11.6 million, at Sothebys on 16 May 2019) and Louise Bourgeois (Spider, $32 […]

Christie’s Top 10 results in Q1 [03 May 2019]

In Artprice’s fortnightly series of auction rankings identifying the Art Market’s primary trends, this week’s Friday Top looks at Christie’s best results in the first quarter of 2019. The world’s most powerful art auctioneer (with a global turnover of nearly $5 billion from Fine Art in 2018) just keeps on generating extraordinary results. Two years […]

Top 10 results so far in Post-War and Contemporary Art [22 Mar 2019]

Every other Friday, Artprice posts a “Top” ranking that provides insight into the Art market’s major trends. This week, we look at the artists who have generated the best auction results in Post-War and Contemporary Art so far this year. The prestige sales held during February and March this year highlight four works which each […]

The year’s first Contemporary Art Market indications [19 Mar 2019]

In London, the year’s first major results in Post-War & Contemporary Art were encouraging. Christie’s and Sotheby’s both posted excellent totals, doubling their combined 2018 sales turnover. Sotheby’s posted $145 million from its sales on 5 and 6 March while Christie’s generated 140 million (including the total from the much anticipated Georges Michael collection), and […]

London. Year’s first results… and upcoming sales [05 Mar 2019]

With the value of sterling contracting against the dollar over the last two years in reaction to Brexit, buying art in London has become slightly more attractive for a market whose principal language is the dollar. While Sotheby’s is claiming that its latest Impressionist & Modern Art sale attracted the most international list of registered […]

Evening dress at Christie’s [13 Nov 2018]

At a time when rivalry between collectors seems to have reached an unprecedented high, Christie’s is poised to raise prices to exceptional levels. Tonight the Art Market’s most powerful players will be present at an exceptional event: a prestige sale organised by Christie’s in New York (13 November 2018). Under the title An American Place, […]

2017 in numbers… [12 Dec 2017]

During December, Artprice looks back at some of the key figures that representing art market highlights during 2017. Here is a selection on the first semester. From 1 to 20 years Firstly, 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum (one of the five museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation) located in […]

Flash News! Far too big for a house – A focus on POP ART – Frieze art fair [06 Oct 2017]

Far too big for a house! It’s his birthday and it’s him who is giving us a gift. And what a gift! For David HOCKNEY’s 80th birthday, the Pompidou Centre, in collaboration with the Tate Britain and the MET, presents the most complete retrospective devoted to his work. The Paris exhibition, open until 23 October, […]

Post-War and Contemporary Art: new records! [16 Feb 2016]

Against the backdrop of stock market crashes, the Art Market proves to be particularly solid. The auction results of London’s Contemporary Art

Exhibitions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s [23 Jul 2013]

In September, Christie’s and Sotheby’s will once again act in unison – this time in London – by taking turns to organise exhibitions of 1960s of English artists, each in collaboration with a gallery owner.

Top 10: British Artists [28 Sep 2012]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the 10 best auction results for British artists of all generations over the past eight months.

Mixed results in New York [26 May 2009]

At the end of the first quarter of 2009, the global art market price index showed a 10% contraction. But in New York City, host to some of the world’s most prestigious art sales, the crisis is being felt particularly hard: the same index shows a 35% local contraction since January 2008.

Christie’s and Sotheby’s prepare their prestige May sales in New York [04 May 2009]

The market is holding its breath ahead of the critical May sales in New York that will inevitably gauge the health of the Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary segments.As expected, the price tags are substantially lower than a year earlier in all three segments

Contemporary art: record prices! [22 May 2006]

New York sales of contemporary art have confirmed the exceptional dynamism of this market in mid season. Over three days – from 9 to 11 May – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips managed to sell no less than 77 works of contemporary art over the USD 1 million mark. During May 2005, only 44 pieces reached the 1 million mark, and in May 2001 the figure was just 24.

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