What the Art Market has to say about Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)

The Top Ten hammer prices of 2014 [19 Dec 2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking.2014 was a year positively bursting with records. And yet the highest bid was still far below the peak achieved in 2013 – and naturally, we wonder why. This week, to shed more light on the situation, Artprice looks back at the Top Ten hammer prices of 2014.

The world’s most ”profitable” artists [15 Dec 2014]

With the art market at an all-time peak, Artprice.com takes a look at artists who generate the highest annual auction totals in the world and who thus represent a handsome source of income for auction operators. The latter, remember, are remunerated from fees charged to both the seller and the buyer.

The Top Ten in Europe. Chapter 7: the UK [05 Dec 2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week, we reveal the ten highest bids ever registered in the UK, i.e. London, the heart of the European market and the third biggest marketplace in the world.

Flash News: Sotheby’s Top 3 of Modern Art – Christie’s Top 3 of Modern Art – Latin American art – watch this space! [14 Nov 2014]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: Sotheby’s Top 3 of Modern Art – Christie’s Top 3 of Modern Art – Latin American art – watch this space!

Flash News: The Schieles of November – Christie’s in Shanghai – A Giacometti masterpiece at Sotheby’s [31 Oct 2014]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: The Schieles of November – Christie’s in Shanghai – A Giacometti masterpiece at Sotheby’s

The Top Ten Nudes [29 Aug 2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the top ten bids for nudes.

The Top Ten of the 1940s [28 Mar 2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the top ten sales of works from the 1940s.

THE TOP TEN OF THE 50s [14 Mar 2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the top ten sales of works from the 1950s.

Zao Wou Ki [07 Jan 2014]

Zao Wou Ki – one of the key figures of Lyrical Abstraction – is also one of China’s most cherished cultural icons. Driven by bulimic Asian demand, his auction prices have soared and in 2013, his works generated no less than 35 auction results above the million-dollar threshold.

Flash News [15 Nov 2013]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news.

Can the most expensive artists be affordable? [22 Oct 2013]

While the auction world feeds on ever more spectacular records, the high-end of the art market only represents a tiny part of global supply.

Top 10: The world’s most expensive works of art [11 Oct 2013]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the world’s ten most expensive works of art.

Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London: trends [24 Jun 2013]

Judging by the unsold rates (16% and 18%) the two sales in London on 18 and 19 June produced honourable results. These rates reflect a buoyant level of global demand with

Sculpture in 2012 [21 Dec 2012]

Friday Top! Every alternate Friday Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the ten best results for sculpture this year.

High-end Modern Art in New York [13 Nov 2012]

On 7 November 2012, while New York was still cleaning up the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and Barack Obama was announcing his re-election, the prestigious auction house Christie’s held one of the most important sales of the year: its Impressionist and Modern Art sale.

The major London sales [19 Jun 2012]

Impressionist and Modern

On 19 and 20 June 2012, Christie’s and Sotheby’s will be holding their evening sales of Impressionist and Modern Art, followed, the day after, by sales of more affordable works from the same periods.

Q & A ahead of the Impressionist & Modern Art sales in New York [24 Apr 2012]

On 1 and 2 May, Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York will be offering 108 works of Impressionist and Modern art.

11 figures for 2011 [07 Feb 2012]

The last page in our review of 2011 crystallises the art market’s main trends in 11 key figures.

10th anniversary of Art Basel Miami Beach [06 Dec 2011]

Created in 2002, Art Basel Miami Beach (Florida, USA) has just celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Prices disconnected from market reality? [02 Nov 2011]

At a time when Artprice’s Art Market Confidence Index shows purchase intentions exceeding 70%, auction estimates for Impressionist & Modern Art in New York are still rising.

The first summer sales of London [27 Jun 2011]

In two days (21 and 22 June 2011), Sotheby’s and Christie’s posted more than £207m vs. £233m in 2010, £61.5m in 2009 and £246m at the market’s peak in 2008.

Prices rise in London [21 Jun 2011]

All the indicators are in the green before the London sales. Sotheby’s and Christie’s prestige Impressionist and Modern Art sales will compete on 21 and 22 June

Sotheby’s records [29 Apr 2011]

Every fortnight Artprice posts a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. The focus of today’s TOP article is the 10 best auction results generated by Sotheby’s.

Anish Kapoor – the experience of vision [15 Mar 2011]

The Indian artist Anish Kapoor is the next artist selected for the Monumenta exhibition in Paris (11 May to 23 June).

Top 10: Women Power! [18 Feb 2011]

Every fortnight Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week, the focus is on women artists. The ten best auction results in 2010 for works by Contemporary female artists.

Impressionist & Modern sales in London: the right balance? [15 Feb 2011]

The results of the Impressionist & Modern February sales in London were respectable compared with the results of the same sales a year earlier, although somewhat less spectacular.

Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London: maintained confidence [31 Jan 2011]

As usual, the first major dates in the global auction calendar are the prestigious sales organised by Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London.

The best-ever 2010 auction results [07 Jan 2011]

Every fortnight Artprice posts a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. The topic of today’s TOP article is the 10 best auction results in 2010.

Auction records at Christie’s [12 Dec 2010]

Every fortnight Artprice posts a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. The theme of today’s TOP article is the 10 best-ever auction results generated by Christie’s.

Impressionist & Modern Art sales in New York: better results… [09 Nov 2010]

Sotheby’s and Christie’s have both posted improved figures after their Impressionist & Modern Art evening sales in New York compared with the same sales in 2009. The unsold rates are substantially lower at between 20 and 26% and their revenue totals are up.