The Artprice / FIAC Contemporary Art Market Report is out!

[19 Oct 2011]

 

Artprice and the FIAC are pleased to announce the distribution of their latest Contemporary Art Market Report. This Report will be freely available to the press, art market professionals and visitors to the FIAC at the Grand Palais in Paris from 20 to 23 October 2011.

According to Thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice, the backdrop to this 38th edition of the FIAC is particularly favourable. In effect, despite the instability of financial markets, art collectors are keeping their heads in a generally pessimistic economic environment and the level of purchase intentions as recorded by Artprice’s A.M.C.I. (Art Market confidence Index) is strong at close to 70%.

This fifth edition of the Artprice / FIAC Contemporary Art Market Report is an essential document for all Amateur, Professional and Institutional buyers or collectors of Contemporary art wishing to stay abreast of the key developments in the market. The Report contains market trends from more than 81 countries, analysing the markets for the world’s top-selling individual artists and particularly their resistance to the deflated speculative bubble… How does the Contemporary art market reacted to periods of doubt and uncertainty? … Where is the art market heading? … How well are New Media integrating the Art Market? … What are the strategies of the world’s major art capitals, particularly Hong Kong and Beijing?

One thing is certain: this crisis cannot be compared to that of the early 1990s. Of course, compared to 2006/2008, million-plus auction sales have become scarce; but the contemporary art market is today more dynamic than ever and is showing a rare degree of maturity that many regulated markets would envy.

The report also presents Artprice’s famous and feared TOP 500 that ranks the world’s top-selling Contemporary artists by revenue (i.e. born since 1945) with number of astonishing surprises this year. It also contains a Galleries’ viewpoint section as well as a Collectors viewpoint section.

The reform of public auction sales (and particularly of online sales) since France’s adoption of the European Services Directive (Law of 20 July 2011) should give Parisian auction houses and galleries – who are now operating on a much more even playing field – the opportunity to recover some of the ground that has been lost on the international art market.

In fact, this law, which came into force on 1 September 2011, gives France the same service and product capacities as the UK via a series of new legal provisions that effectively eliminate a monopoly dating back to 1556.

A PDF version of the Artprice / FIAC Contemporary Art Market Report will be downloadable from Artprice.com in French and English as of 20 October 2011. The German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese versions will be available several days later.

SUMMARY

THE CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET 2010/2011 – THE LATEST CURRENTS
ART MARKET CAPITALS
GALLERY’S INSIGHT
COLLECTOR’S INSIGHT
ARAB CONTEMPORARY ART – OVERVIEW
NEW MEDIA AND THE ART MARKET
TOP 500 Contemporary artists
 

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