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The three best-selling artists in the world [15 Feb 2022]
The three most “popular” artists on the art market, i.e. those for whom supply and demand are the most intense, all have prolific productions to their credit. The volumes produced during their careers feed a market whose appetite for their essential signatures never seems to tire. We take a quick look at the markets for […]
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 […]
A couple of Parisian art fairs resist: Galeristes and ASIA NOW! [20 Oct 2020]
Although all the major Parisian art events have been hastily cancelled (the Fiac, Paris photo and even Art & Museum) other fairs such as Galeristes and Asia Now have confirmed they will be taking place, highlighting the rarity of such events in this very difficult period. Galeristes 2020 The 5th edition of the Galeristes art […]
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 $128 million hammered […]
Top 10 beach scenes [28 Jun 2019]
As the summer season kicks in, Artprice takes a look at the Top 10 most-expensive beach paintings. Some of the art market’s most famous artists painted beach scenes… and some of these works are particularly appreciated by collectors. These week’s auction ranking takes a look at the market’s Top 10 most expensive beach scenes. At […]
The Top10 of Surrealism [30 Nov 2018]
Every other Friday Artprice posts an auction ranking to help you apprehend the Art Market’s leading trends. This week, Artprice takes a look at the 10 most expensive Surrealist artworks ever sold at auction… A ranking very clearly dominated by Miro. The Catalan Surrealist artist Joan Miro, currently the subject of a major retrospective at […]
Top of Surrealism in 2018 [11 May 2018]
This week’s Friday Top ranks the best results in 2018 of one of the major founding artistic movements in the 20th century, Surrealism, a movement that both Christie’s and Sotheby’s devote specialised sales to each year. Rank Artist Artwork Price ($) Date Auctioneer 1 René MAGRITTE (1898-1967) Le groupe silencieux (1926) $10,031,386 27/02/2018 Christie’s London 2 […]
The top Surrealist sales [10 Mar 2017]
Discover the best sales every Friday! Every other Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week’s ranking reveals the 10 most expensive Surrealist works in auction history. Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, André Masson, Man Ray, Joan Miro, Giorgio De Chirico, Jean Arp, Yves Tanguy, Victor Brauner, Oscar Dominguez, Wifredo Lam, […]
The best sales in Spain [16 Sep 2016]
Discover the best sales every Friday! Every other Friday, Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week, the ten best results recorded in Spain during the first half of 2016 are reviewed. The best sales in Spain Rank Artist Hammer Price Artwork Sale 1 Joaquín SOROLLA Y BASTIDA (1863-1923) $421,989 Monte Ulía, san Sebastian (1917) […]
The Top 10 sculptors sold for USD 5,000–15,000 [22 May 2015]
Fridays are the Best! Every other Friday, Artprice offers you a themed auction ranking. Beyond record hammer prices, the leader of information on the Art Market reveals the list of the ten most sold artists in the USD 5,000-15,000 price range.
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.
Flash News : Joseph Cornell – Francis Bacon – Gerrit van Honthorst [24 Jan 2014]
Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news: Joseph Cornell – Francis Bacon – Gerrit van Honthorst
Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London: a number of resales… [17 Jun 2013]
On 18 and 19 June in London, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are holding their Impressionist & Modern Art sales. Frequented by the world’s most important dealers and collectors,
Art Market News in Brief! [16 Nov 2012]
Every fortnight, Artprice provides a short round up of art market news.
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.
Q & A ahead of the Impressionist & Modern Art sales in New York [24 Apr 2012]
On 1 and 2 May, Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York will be offering 108 works of Impressionist and Modern art.
This week on the art market [14 Feb 2012]
The opening of ARCO Madrid, the Impressionist and Modern London sales, the death of Antoni Tapies and Mike Kelley : Artprice wraps up this week on the art market.
11 figures for 2011 [07 Feb 2012]
The last page in our review of 2011 crystallises the art market’s main trends in 11 key figures.
The Surrealists [28 Oct 2011]
Every fortnight Artprice provides you with a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. This week, we focus on the Surrealists.
The best 2011 auction results! [03 Mar 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 2011.
Impressionist & Modern sales in London: the right balance? [15 Feb 2011]
The results of the Impressionist & Modern February sales in London were respectable compared with the results of the same sales a year earlier, although somewhat less spectacular.
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.
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.
Affordable art: a diversified market [18 May 2009]
For 10 years now a special “roaming” art fair has been dedicated to affordable art contributing to dispelling the notion that art is elitist and beyond the budgets of the masses.From 4 to 7 June 2009, the Affordable Art Fair is returning to Paris, at the Espace Champerret, having already visited London, Sydney, Amsterdam, New York and Brussels. Young collectors and informed non-professionals seeking new talents can discover more than 600 artists at prices ranging from 100 to 5,000 euros.
Modern sculpture at a high [06 Dec 2007]
In the modern period, prices for sculpture have been rising faster than those of painting, with the price index for sculpture reaching a new high in 2007, growth of 100% in 15 years!
Dali sculptures [06 Feb 2007]
Surrealism emerged at the same time as Freudian psycho-analysis in the 1920s prompting some artists to turn their attention to the world of the unconscious. In the words of André Breton, the surrealists’ mentor, their manifest intention was to “express the mechanics of thought”. In 1924, the founding year of the movement, Breton focused on 3-dimensional objects and proposed to make “objects that can only be seen in dreams”. Six years later, Dali applied his owned paranoia-critique method to the construction of objects creating new delirious images that were totally surrealist!
Performance of Artprice’s standardised art market place [01 Aug 2005]
By 31 July 2005, just five months after its launch, Artprice’s standardised marketplace had hosted a total of 26,701 works of art offered for sale. Their value, excluding a very large number of major pieces offered by sellers at undisclosed prices, totalled EUR 521,754,069.
5,000 works of art permanently on offer on the new standardised marketplace [06 Apr 2005]
After only two months since its launch, Artprice’s new marketplace for artwork continues to boom. In March, Artprice’s Classified Ads section counted 450,000 visitors. At the beginning of April 2005, over 5,000 works by almost 4,000 artists were up for sale every day on this marketplace! By way of comparison, Art Basel and the FIAC each exhibit 1,500 artists.
Surrealist photography market [30 Mar 2005]
“Begierde im Blick” (the Gaze of Desire) is the main theme of the major exhibition on surrealist photography held at the Kunsthalle, Hamburg running until 29 May 2005.An element of the surrealism movement since its beginnings in 1924, photography allowed to capture images and sensations taken from “real” life. For MAN RAY, Jacques-André BOIFFARD, Hans BELLMER, Manuel ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, Raoul UBAC, André KERTÉSZ, Herbert BAYER and Claude CAHUN, photography provided a way to present a surrealist vision of the world: an impossible reality.
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