What the Art Market has to say about Francis PICABIA (1879-1953)

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Paris: a unique marketplace for drawings [22 Mar 2024]

The French art market is one of the largest in the world for artworks on paper, not only at auction, but also via the unique drawing fairs and exhibitions that are hosted in Paris every spring, accompanied by a string of specialized auction sales. At auction and on a global scale, the drawing market generates […]

Art market in France: the end of the post-covid rebound effect? [06 Jun 2023]

Is the French art market losing ground? This is the question we can ask after a sharp decline in French art auction turnover in the first part of this year, compared with the results obtained in the same period last year. In the semester of 2022, the French art market was boosted by some exceptional […]

Sotheby’s: memorable results in 2022 [10 Jan 2023]

2022 turned out to be an epic year on the art auction market with lots of remarkable masterpieces generating lots of new records. Artmarket by Artprice focuses on some of the results that made 2022 such an extraordinary year. At the end of 2022, Sotheby’s posted an overall turnover of 8 billion dollars (i.e. $400,000 […]

Surrealist mood… [07 Feb 2020]

The market data is clear: René MAGRITTE (1898-1967)  is currently the top-selling painter of the Surrealist movement. In the last three years, demand for works by the Belgian artist has been unprecedented with record after record in the auction rooms, and 2019 was a historic year for his market with more than $128 million hammered […]

Flash News: El Greco – Pandolfini masterpieces – Da Vinci at the Louvre [13 Sep 2019]

A major El Greco exhibition Grand Palais, Paris: 16 October 2019 – 10 February 2020 Spectacular, colorful and sensual, the paintings of El Greco (Domenikos EL GRECO, 1541-1614) represent – according to Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau, curator of Spanish and Portuguese painting at the Louvre Museum – the “final bloom” of the Renaissance. And yet, neither the […]

Focus on Francis Picabia [27 Nov 2018]

Enigmatic, paradoxical, unclassifiable, the work of Picabia was a key element in the strong wind of change that emerged in the early 20th century, especially through the Dada movement. A mainstay of the Western art market, Picabia’s work has never been subject to any major price hikes, but his prices have been progressing at a […]

The multitude of art fairs highlights a multi-speed market [30 Oct 2018]

The global figures show phenomenal Art Market growth: +1,700% since the year 2000 in terms of Fine Art auction turnover, with Contemporary art as the market’s principal driver. However, the extraordinary expansion is not evenly spread across the market… as we saw at the various different art fairs recently hosted in Paris. The FIAC’s results […]

Mixed results at London’s first major sales of the year [09 Feb 2016]

Christie’s and Sotheby’s kicked off their 2016 London programmes with sales of Surrealist, Impressionist and Modern art on 2 and 3 February 2016.

Man Ray. Unconcerned, but not indifferent [08 Sep 2015]

‘Unconcerned, but not indifferent’ (so reads his epitaph)… irreverent, poetic and inventive, Man Ray was the most “multi-media” artist of the international avant-garde. Living on both sides of the Atlantic, he revolutionised art in France and made a strong impression in American.

Flash News: Centre Pompidou at the Costa del Sol – Olafur Eliasson at Vuitton – A surreal February [23 Jan 2015]

Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: Centre Pompidou at the Costa del Sol – Olafur Eliasson at Vuitton – A surreal February

The Section d’Or… the “other” cubism [16 Sep 2014]

Considered an offshoot of Cubism, Section d’Or (Golden Section) artists are not as expensive as the hardcore Cubists like Picasso. While their prices have continued to climb (new record for Juan Gris this year), many works by the major avant-garde artists are still very cheap by comparison.

Art Paris Art Fair – 29 March / 1 April 2012 [27 Mar 2012]

The first rendez-vous of the Parisian art calendar in 2012 is Art Paris Art Fair which will open its doors to the public on March 29 with a number refreshing new features. Nearly 48,000 visitors are expected during the 4-day event.

The most buoyant art movements of 2005 [12 Dec 2005]

Artprice has established a ranking of art movements based on price progressions in 2005.

Propelled by a major exhibition since 5 October at the Pompidou Centre, Dada takes the lead with a 137% rise in its price index since the beginning of the year. However, the Dadism movement lasted only eight years from 1916 to 1924 and supply remains very limited. Not a single work by Duchamp, Sophie TAEUBER-ARP or Hans ARP produced during this short period appeared at auction in 2005.

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