伊夫·克莱因：艺术市场及伊夫·克莱因的信息

Sotheby’s: memorable results in 2022 [2023年01月10日]

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 […]

Works collected by Christo and Jeanne-Claude arrive at Sotheby’s [2021年02月05日]

Like all artists, CHRISTO (1935-2020) and Jean-Claude fraternized with other artists and in some cases became very close friends. And like most artists, they also acquired and surrounded themselves with artworks they particularly liked. Christo and Jeanne Claude together acquired some exceptional pieces during their lives including works by Andy WARHOL, Marcel DUCHAMP, Lucio FONTANA […]

Flash News: Art Geneva – Asia and its fairs – Nahon’s art collection [2019年02月01日]

Art Geneva is growing This year Art Geneva will host 90 galleries versus 86 in 2018. The fair is expanding, but according to its director Thomas Hug, who has steered the fair towards a solid reputation in seven years of existence, the fair wishes to maintain a ‘reasonable’ format. The fair’s good reputation is primarily […]

Günther Uecker’s bristling œuvre [2018年12月04日]

“We need images to communicate the unspeakable” In some ways, the work of German artist Günther Uecker seems like a synthesis of Lucio Fontana’s logic with that of Yves Klein, who he knew well. The purpose of art? To go beyond words… to open the door to immateriality and transcendence while remaining rooted in everyday […]

Focus on Bernar Venet [2018年08月28日]

As preparations for the new art world calendar (September – June, at least in the northern hemisphere) start to emerge, one of the most interesting upcoming cultural events in France is a Bernar Venet retrospective to open on 21 September at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon. The Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art has […]

Yves Klein. Top whack for ethereal art [2018年07月17日]

Yves Klein – who would have been 90 in 2018 – is one of the most sought-after French artists of all time. Yves KLEIN (1928-1962) is in fact the most expensive French artist from the second half of the 20th century. In many respects he owes his exceptional market success to his adventurous and open […]

Flash News: Paper Positions – The Fondation Carmignac [2018年04月20日]

Paper Positions kicks off in Berlin Paper Positions – focusing on all forms of creativity on (or in) paper – opens April 26-29 in the superb atrium of the Deutsche Telekom Hauptstadtrepräsentanz. This year the fair will present drawings, collages, cutouts, paper-folding, art books, written works and 3-D creations. Of modest dimensions – just 46 […]

China’s art market is opening… example in Shanghai [2016年11月02日]

As the years go by, China’s art market is gradually opening up to Western art, driven partly by the initiatives of Western auction houses who inform and advise Chinese collectors and partly by an increasingly energetic museum policy aimed at promoting the best Western art to the Chinese public. Although cultural diversity is, a priori, […]

Sale of Claude Berri’s collection… Part 1 announced [2016年09月20日]

The art market news this autumn 2016 is dominated by sales of collections. These include works acquired by David Bowie, the presidential couple Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Daniel and Eliane Brollo and Prince Yusupov. There will also be a series of five sales to disperse the works of French film director and producer Claude Berri […]