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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.
Henri Matisse [27 May 2014]
Matisse went through Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism with an overriding leitmotiv that underpinned the limpidity and power of one of the most important oeuvres of the 20th century: “see life through the eyes of a child”.
The Top Ten of the 1910s [12 May 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 1910s.
Flash News : Matisse at the Tate Modern – Lucio Fontana in Paris – Contemporary Art in New York [02 May 2014]
Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: Matisse at the Tate Modern – Lucio Fontana in Paris – Contemporary Art in New York
The Top Ten of the 1920s [25 Apr 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 1920s.
The Top Ten of the 1930s [11 Apr 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 1930s.
Treasures stolen by Nazis [12 Nov 2013]
History sometimes brutally resurfaces. The last few days in Germany is a case in point with information made public concerning over 1,400 works stolen by the Nazis and discovered in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt in the spring of 2011. Among them, hundreds of paintings by modern masters including Max BECKMANN, Emil NOLDE, Franz MARC, Henri MATISSE, Pablo PICASSO, Pierre-Auguste RENOIR, and Paul KLEE among others…
Goya, Hans Memling and Chardin, late January in New York [15 Jan 2013]
Christie’s and Sotheby’s Old Master sales are one of the jewels of the auction market. They offer a chance to see and acquire rare works and outstanding signatures at prices that are often more reasonable than those achieved by masters of contemporary art.
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 best of New York: Picasso, Kandinsky, Monet [30 Oct 2012]
The art world’s biggest collectors will be gathered together on 5 and 7 November for the prestigious New York Impressionist & Modern Art sales.
Top 10: French Artists [12 Oct 2012]
Once a fortnight Artprice draws up a ranking of theme-based auction results. This week our focus is on the ten best results over the past eight months for French artists of all generations.
Munch’s The Scream raises market ceiling and overturns art media hierarchy [04 May 2012]
Wednesday, May 2, the art market acquired a new all-time record for the sale of an artwork at a public auction when Sotheby’s New York sold of MUNCH’s The Scream for $107m ($119.9m including fees).
Latin American Contemporary artists [27 Apr 2012]
Another Friday Top. Every fortnight Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the top ten auction results in 2011 for Contemporary Latin American artists.
Christie’s sale: a quick look at some of the results [13 Mar 2012]
On 7 March 2012, Christie’s in New York held a major Contemporary Art sale. The catalogue contained 252 lots of which 78% sold (196) generating $8.7m in revenue.
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.
Prestige sales in New York produce mixed results [17 May 2011]
Although generally considered safer (and less volatile) investments, the Modern Masters failed to generate the estimated results at Christie’s and Sotheby’s May sales in New York, generating a combined total of just $285.65m from their Impressionist & Modern Art sessions.
The May sales in 2001 [13 May 2011]
Every fortnight Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This Friday’s TOP ranking focuses on the 10 best auction results in May 2001.
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.
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.
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Best auction revenue of the year in the contemporary paintings and contemporary drawings categories… [06 Sep 2010]
A controversial figure who enjoyed substantial media exposure, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work moved quickly from the anonymity of the New York subway to the spotlight of galleries and bourgeois homes.
The 10 best results on the London art market in 2010 [19 Aug 2010]
Every fortnight Artprice provides you with a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. The theme of today’s TOP article is the 10 best auction results in London this year.
June 2010: major sales in London … and in Paris! [05 Jul 2010]
The major London sales during June were stacked full of high quality works: an ultra-rare Manet self-portrait, a Fauvist work by André Derain with an extraordinary background and an absinthe drinker from Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’ – the results could not fail to better the previous years’ totals.
The Paris art auction market [21 Jun 2010]
Traditionally London and New York host the so-called ‘prestige’ sales that generate the world’s most spectacular art auction results whereas 89% of the art auction lots sold in France fetch less than $10,000. Nevertheless, from time to time some impressionist, modern and contemporary works offered at French sales generate results on a par with Anglo-American results.
May 2010: Top 10 auction results [11 Jun 2010]
Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a ranking of auction records. This week, discover the highest prices recorded in May 2010.
Return of market effervescence [17 May 2010]
With a large number of major collectors clearly back in acquisitive mode, the results of the big sales in New York during May amply covered the price expectations and were a far cry from those posted in May 2009.
May auction sales: the ascent continues… [26 Apr 2010]
The recovery in art prices is accelerating. At least, that is judging by the ambitious estimates announced by the major auction houses for their forthcoming Impressionist and Modern Art sales on 4 and 5 May 2010.
Ahead of the May sales [06 Apr 2010]
Ahead of the major Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales in May, collectors have been making their annual pilgrimages to art fairs around the world. During March and April, those interested in Contemporary art have been particularly attracted to the Armory Show, Art Paris, Art Tokyo, Art Brussels, Cige, etc.
A wave of optimism at the London sales [08 Feb 2010]
Christie’s and Sotheby’s have won their gamble. The Impressionist & Modern Art sales on 2 and 3 February in London generated one global all-segment record and 29 results above £1m out of 87 lots offered. Christie’s managed to sell 87.5% of its lots for £61m (est. £48m-69m) plus the £8.5m from its special session devoted to surrealist art.
Impressionist and Modern sales in London – unabashed confidence! [25 Jan 2010]
Since the peak in January 2008, the price index of Impressionist art has contracted sharply: down 39.3%. But for Christie’s and Sotheby’s – judging by the high estimates in the catalogues for their upcoming London sales – the price deflation is now over.
New York’s Impressionist & Modern sales produce very mixed results [09 Nov 2009]
The two days of Impressionist & Modern auctions in New York saw the art market in full roller-coaster mode: after a very uninspiring evening at Christie’s that generated just $56.8m on 3 November 2009 (vs. $116.9m on 6 November 2008), Sotheby’s posted $102m more than its rival ($158.6m vs. $196.8m on 3 November 2008) the following day and several new records.
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