What the Art Market has to say about HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
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Hokusai featured in New York [05 Mar 2024]
A year after Christie’s hammered a record $2.75 million for a print of Hukosai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, the same auctioneer is putting Hokusai in the spotlight of its spring sales with an exceptional set of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji to be sold on 19 March during Asia Week in New York. HOKUSAI’s Great […]
Hokusai: The Great Wave… and beyond [05 Sep 2023]
“When I’m a hundred years old, I’ll draw a line and that will be life.” (Katsushika Hokusai) HOKUSAI died at the age of 89, unable to achieve his goal of tracing life itself by drawing a line. The “Crazy Old Drawer” – as he often described himself – left behind a prolific œuvre of 30,000 […]
Hokusai’s Great Wave reaches a new milestone [04 Apr 2023]
A few days before the opening of the exhibition Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (March 26-July 16, 2023), one of the finest known proofs of Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa revised the artist’s auction record by fetching $2.76 million at Christie’s during Asian Week (vs. an estimate of $500,000 […]
Egon Schiele tokenized [31 May 2022]
A rare painting by Egon Schiele was recently rediscovered in a private home in Vienna. Painted in 1907, the Austrian master’s oil-on-canvas depicts his uncle Leopold Czihaczek playing the piano, his eyes focused on the score in a rare and intimate scene created when Egon Schiele was sixteen. It was the same year Gustav Klimt […]
The high end market for prints: focus on Hokusai’s Great Wave [10 Nov 2021]
Matisse and Picasso, Haring and Basquiat, Warhol, Richter and Banksy… the year’s top-selling prints have shown a distinct preference for Modern & Contemporary works over ‘historical’ works. Indeed, the appeal of the new is perfectly illustrated by the fact that the year’s highest price in this medium so far is for a work by Banksy, […]
Flash News: the year of Robert Gober – Hokusai in Paris – Rembrandt in London [05 Sep 2014]
Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: the year of Robert Gober – Hokusai in Paris – Rembrandt in London
Global Top Ten antique prints [20 Dec 2013]
Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the Top Ten antique prints.
Takashi Murakami – Western-style Manga Art [27 Sep 2010]
The world’s most successful contemporary artists also have excellent business acumen.
Ando Hiroshige (1797 – 1858) [10 Apr 2003]
Like his immediate predecessor Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige is one of Japan’s leading landscapists. Single prints are affordable. Full series set records.
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