What the Art Market has to say about Cy TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
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The most important works in the Landau collection at Sotheby’s [09 Nov 2023]
Sotheby’s in New York has just completed the auction of the year’s most expensive private collection, that of Emily Fisher Landau, from which more than 100 works of Modern and Contemporary art were offered on 8 and 9 November: the sale rises to the very satisfactory result of $406.4 million, with 100% of the 31 […]
Mark Rothko at the Louis Vuitton Foundation [29 Sep 2023]
After Basquiat & Warhol, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris (the FLV) is hosting an exceptional exhibition of work by yet another American giant. It’s the first major retrospective in France of Mark ROTHKO’s prolific oeuvre since that presented at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris in 1999. Opening on 18 […]
The top-selling American artists in 2021 [14 Dec 2021]
As the year draws to a close, we can calculate provisional conclusions about the most in-demand artists on the global auction market in 2021. After a review of the most successful French artists (French artists on top of the market!), Artprice looks at which American signatures attracted the highest bids during 2021. Four Basquiats in […]
Sotheby’s: a week at $1.1 billion! [23 Nov 2021]
Last Monday, a week after Christie’s white glove sale of the Cox Collection (including a painting by Gustave Caillebotte at a record $53 million), Sotheby’s offered part of the highly anticipated Macklowe Collection (generating $676 million!). The following day, the American auction house again made art news headlines with an extraordinary self-portrait by Frida Kahlo […]
Flash News: NFT sales in Hong Kong – Macklowe Collection and Cox Collection [17 Sep 2021]
No return to business after the summer recess without NFTs!… Last week, from just two lots created by Yuga Labs in its online session “Ape In!” Sotheby’s generated $26.2 million, setting its latest record for an NFT sale. Of these two lots, a set of 101 YUGA LABS NFTs depicting monkeys sold for $24.4 million (101 […]
Eli Broad: the unreasonable collector [25 May 2021]
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man” George Bernard Shaw. Eli Broad made this maxim his own; he even alluded to it in the title of his autobiography / success manual published in 2012, […]
Over a billion dollars worth of art sold in New York this week [14 May 2021]
The high-end art market appears to have regained its full strength with sales totalling $691 million at Christie’s and $677 million at Sotheby’s. This week’s activity clearly signals a return to pre-pandemic dynamism. The two auction majors have just dispersed nearly $1.4 billion worth of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary works (11 – 13 May). We […]
Top results in 2020 [11 Dec 2020]
The years go by… but are never quite the same… Bacon, Hockney and Rothko, who were already in the Top 10 results of 2019, are admittedly still present this year, but Claude Monet and Jeff Koons are absent. The latter two (very different) artists generated a record for Impressionism record at $110.7 million (Claude Monet’s […]
A look back over the major October art sales [03 Nov 2020]
Works by Old Masters, Impressionists, Modern artists and Contemporary artists were all on offer in prestige sales that ended a few days ago most of which defiantly ignored traditional classifications. Christie’s had a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton and a painting by Monet, while Sotheby’s offered three sculptural Alfa-Romeos by Franco Scaglione alongside a work by Richard […]
Günther Förg. Painting should be sexy [07 Jul 2020]
“What others take for granted is a problem for us”… this rough translation from the title of a 1998 exhibition of Förg’s work (Was andern selbstverständlich, ist uns Problem) at Mönchengladbach’s Abteiberg Museum could serve as a ‘motto’ for Förg’s entire œuvre. From his first black and gray monochromes in the 1970s to his colored […]
Top 10 works of abstract art [16 Nov 2018]
Every other Friday Artprice posts an auction ranking to help you apprehend the Art Market’s leading trends. This week, Artprice takes a look at the 10 most expensive abstract artworks on the auction market and overviews the general value accretion currently affecting the entire genre. Abstraction is now over a century old. The genre was […]
The 2017 Top 10 [22 Dec 2017]
It’s Top 10 Friday! Every other Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. For the last Top 10 of 2017 we look back at the highest sales in the world this year. More than 1 billion dollars The last Top 10 of the year is also the most impressive ever in the auction world, thanks […]
The bi-annual Top 10 [04 Aug 2017]
Discover the best sales every Friday! Every other Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week, the best 2017 auctions show the major role played by the high-end market, with 10 works sold for over $44 million in six months. Six of the Top 10 auctions of the year took place in New York, […]
2017 Top – The best sales of 2017 [26 May 2017]
Discover the best sales every Friday! Every other Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. The latest results for May have turned the ranking on its head, as evidenced by this overview of the 10 most expensive works sold since January 2017. Two months after our Quarterly Top 10, the world’s best auction rankings have […]
Cy Twombly: a market bulls-eye [16 Aug 2016]
The Centre Pompidou in Paris is preparing a large-scale Cy TWOMBLY exhibition that will run from 30 November 2016 to 24 April 2017, with around 140 works.
Contemporary abstract art: Rothko, and company [02 Aug 2016]
Today’s prices of American Abstract Expressionist art illustrate the country’s dominance of the global market, with works by Mark ROTHKO, Clyfford STILL, Jackson POLLOCK and Sam FRANCIS easily fetching more than $50 million at auction.
Latest New York summits [17 May 2016]
Traditionally a crucial month for big auction houses, May sees the art market’s major dealers and collectors converge on New York for the Frieze (5-8 May 2016), which acts as a prelude to the much anticipated prestige sales of Modern and Contemporary art
Upcoming Contemporary masterpieces in New York [03 May 2016]
All regular stars of the Contemporary art market’s top bracket, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Peter Doig, Christopher Wool, Andy Warhol, Mike Kelley, Robert Gober, Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell are just some of the signatures in New York’s spring Contemporary art sales
Overview of key week in NY auction calendar [17 Nov 2015]
Sotheby’s and Christie’s prayers appear to have been answered, at least partially. After one of the most important weeks in New York’s prestige sales calendar (4-12 November),
Contemporary art in London: the first results of the year [17 Feb 2015]
$188.2 million (incl. fees) at Sotheby’s on February 10, and $177.8m at Christie’s the following day. The two auctioneers were delighted to encounter such strong and wealthy demand.
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 Contemporary Art bonanza continues… [18 Nov 2014]
At the finish line of the major November sales the American auction company, Sotheby’s, confirmed its leadership of the Impressionist & Modern segment with its best-ever sales total of $422.1 million including fees
Christopher Wool – an explosive market [05 Aug 2014]
$23.5 million for the canvas Apocalypse Now in November 2013 and $21 million for If You in May 2014, Christopher WOOL is today one of the essential signatures in Contemporary art sales, on the same level as Jeff KOONS and Gerhard RICHTER.
Flash News : Il Veronese – Paul Gauguin – The Louvre Abu Dhabi [21 Mar 2014]
Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: Il Veronese – Paul Gauguin – The Louvre Abu Dhabi
Art Basel lands in Hong Kong. [30 May 2013]
The first edition of Art Basel Hong Kong proved to be a great success with public and dealers alike, attracting 60,000 visitors.
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.
A week of Contemporary art in Paris [23 Oct 2012]
If space is a luxury (particularly in Paris), it is difficult to find a more luxurious venue than the Grand Palais with its 77,000m² to host the 182 galleries (8% more than last year) at this year’s FIAC (18 – 21 October 2012).
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.
Art Market News in Brief ! [20 Apr 2012]
Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news.
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