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Christie’s leads the way in London [24 Oct 2023]

Against a backdrop of market jitters, Christie’s latest sales dedicated to 20th and 21st Century Art in London managed to equal last year’s results. The turnover total of $117.7 million hammered by Christie’s from two sales on 13 October lent a degree of reassurance to the art market. The evening consisted of a first part […]

The rise of the German art market [27 Jun 2023]

After reviewing the state of the art market in France and in the United States, Artprice by Artmarket takes a look at the condition of the German art market, the world’s fifth largest by national art auction turnover. In view of recent strong results, Germany’s high-end art market seems to be gathering momentum. The number […]

Günther Förg on a steep ascension [29 Apr 2022]

We are currently seeing strong demand for works by Germany’s major artists! For example, Günther Förg’s price index has risen by more than 600% in 20 years. Germany is one of the few countries where the art auction market remained almost unaffected by the covid pandemic. Bucking the trend of other Western marketplaces, its overall […]

How to objectively define Contemporary Art in 2020? [24 Jan 2020]

For the sake of coherence, clarity and transparency, Artprice’s editorial team has always divided Art History into five main periods with artworks being classified according to a simple and indisputable criterion… the birth year of their creators: Old Masters’ … artists born up until 1760 ‘19th century’ … artists born from 1760 to 1860 ‘Modern’ […]

London / Paris [16 Oct 2018]

An astonishing start to the new auction season in London has brought the vibrant Contemporary Art market back into the limelight. During the first fifteen days of October, London was the centre of the art world, with top-level events including Frieze London, Frieze Masters and the high-quality and eclectic Design fair, PAD. The city also […]

Flash News: Brancusi – Stafford – Franz West [07 Sep 2018]

Constantin Brancusi sculpture at the MoMA Nancy Cunard was not the sort of woman to surf the privileges of her family name or her social class, and nor did she make much of her nationality or her sexual identity. She was quintessentially pluralist. When she met Constantin BRANCUSI in 1923 in the effervescent Paris of […]

Contemporary art in London [14 Mar 2017]

After an excellent start to London’s season with Christie’s and Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art sales at the end of February/beginning of March, the overall climate for the Contemporary Art sales last week was substantially less foreboding than it was back in March 2016. To maintain the suspense and keep the adrenaline flowing, the relatively […]

Viennafair kicks off European art fairs [25 Sep 2012]

The Viennafair (20-23 September) opened the European art fair season before Brussels (Fotofever, 4 – 7 October), London (Frieze 11 – 14 October 2012), Paris (FIAC, 18 – 21 October 2012) and their myriad of “Off” shows.

Gerhard Richter craze [28 Aug 2012]

Since the start of 2012, Gerhard Richter has signed four auction results above $15 million! Spearhead of Contemporary German painting, Richter has become the most expensive living artist of our time.

Contemporary art market: results from the spring/summer season of 2006 [02 Oct 2006]

This month the European art market will gyrate to the rhythm of the contemporary art fairs, with the Frieze Art Fair starting 12 October in London and then the Paris FIAC on 26 October and Art Cologne on 1 November. At the same time, the auction houses will capitalise on these events by organising major concurrent sales of contemporary art.Before the fall season begins, Artprice here provides a brief overview of the ebullient contemporary art market so far this year.

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