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Top Ten American Abstract Expressionists [03 Jan 2014]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice publishes a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the Top Ten bids for American Abstract Expressionists

Christie’s, 12 November: best auction total ever recorded! [19 Nov 2013]

November 12, 2013 will go down in auction history. Christie’s prestige sale of Post-War and Contemporary art already posted an unusual ambition before the auction took place, with an overall estimate exceeding $500 million … a figure far beyond any previous sales total.

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.

Best results in 2013: China versus the United States [27 Aug 2013]

Over the first six months of 2013, the U.S. art market generated some of the best auction results in its history, primarily through Post-War & Contemporary art sales. New York stands out as the absolute capital of the global high-end art market.

Flash news [09 Aug 2013]

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

New York: high-end Contemporary results explode [21 May 2013]

Like last year, New York’s Contemporary sales have generated larger figures than the Impressionist & Modern sales in the same month.

Major fairs and prestige sales in New York [07 May 2013]

The calendar of New York’s big art fairs is pegged to that of city’s prestige sales.

The star works in the upcoming NY May sales [09 Apr 2013]

Veritable pulse of the Western art market, New York, accounting for 95% of total U.S. art auction revenue, is preparing its major May 2013 sales with a great deal of media attention.

Miami Art fair [11 Dec 2012]

Every year – for any self-respecting art lover – the beginning of December is synonymous with Art Basel Miami Beach.

New York: historical records for sales of Post-War and Contemporary art [20 Nov 2012]

Flouting the generally unfavorable economic mood, this year’s autumn sales in New York managed to post a new all-time high. Far more buoyant than the Impressionist and Modern Art sales a week earlier, the Post-War & Contemporary segment once again posted the better results: proof that nothing seems capable of undermining the vitality of this safe-haven market.

The best Abstract Art results this year [06 Nov 2012]

Finding museum quality paintings by the historical masters of abstract art such as Frantisek Kupka, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kasimir Malevich is a major challenge. The best pieces are in museums or private collections from which they rarely depart.

Art Market News in Brief ! [19 Oct 2012]

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

Top 10: Modern abstract Paintings [14 Sep 2012]

Friday is Top day! Every other Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the ten highest bids for modern Abstract painting over the past twelve months.

Best auction results in H1 2012 [31 Aug 2012]

Friday is Top day! Every alternate Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the top ten auctions since January 2012.

Georges Mathieu – The aesthetics of speed [17 Jul 2012]

Inventor of extraordinary geometric shapes inspired by calligraphy and oriental arts, Georges Mathieu, who died in June 2012 at the age of 91, was arguably one of the great masters of the second half of the 20th century.

Art Market News in Brief ! [29 Jun 2012]

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

American artists under 40 (June 2011 – May 2012) [22 Jun 2012]

Friday is Top day! Every alternate Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week’s topic is the Top 10 results for American artists under 40 in 2011.

Art Market News in Brief ! [15 Jun 2012]

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

The New York sales can be summarized in one word: Record! [15 May 2012]

A new record for Post-War & Contemporary Art sales has been set.If we just take Christie’s and Sotheby’s prestige sales of 8 and 9 May 2012, the 102 masterpieces sold generated roughly $578.3 million in revenue and 18 new artist’s records.

Contemporary & Post-War Art sales, key info…. [02 May 2012]

Christie’s and Sotheby’s will be hosting their evening sales of Contemporary & Post-War Art on 7 and 8 May in New York.

Contemporary art defies the market… [15 Nov 2011]

The art market is proving its extraordinary capacity for surprise. After the very disappointing Impressionist & Modern sales in New York, the outlook for the Contemporary and Post-War Art sales was not particularly good

Best auction results in H1 2011 [22 Jul 2011]

Our Friday TOP! Every other Friday Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week we present the ten best auction results in the first half of 2011.

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.

Prestige sales in New York [03 May 2011]

On 3 and 4 May 2011, Christie’s and Sotheby’s will kick off the annual series of multi million-dollar auctions with their Impressionist & Modern Art sales, followed by their Post-War & Contemporary Art sales on 10 and 11 May.

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.

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.

Christie’s and Sotheby’s anticipate price increases [03 May 2010]

For their Contemporary Art sales on 11 and 12 May 2010, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are betting on high prices for masterpieces signed Warhol, Klein and Rothko. But above all, the catalogues contain a number of major works that the crisis has withheld from the market.

Mixed results in New York [26 May 2009]

At the end of the first quarter of 2009, the global art market price index showed a 10% contraction. But in New York City, host to some of the world’s most prestigious art sales, the crisis is being felt particularly hard: the same index shows a 35% local contraction since January 2008.

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