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The best results in the Modern art segment in 2023 [2024年01月09日]

Picasso, Klimt, Bacon, Rothko, Kandinsky, Magritte and Modigliani… the market for Modern art is undeniably the segment most likely to trigger the most spectacular auction results, and the only segment capable of generating no less than 16 results above 100 million dollars (in 2023) for works by the most famous artists born between 1860 and […]

More than a billion US dollars hammered in New York [2023年11月14日]

Christie’s and Sotheby’s generated almost $1.2 billion from their New York sales of Modern and Contemporary art last week. A reassuring result for the end of a year in which some exceptional works attracted strong attention, while others disappointed expectations. Christie’s generates $759.35 million Christie’s took a total $759.35 million from its two sessions ($107.45 […]

The most important works in the Landau collection at Sotheby’s [2023年11月09日]

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 […]

Sotheby’s to host the ‘sale of the year’: the Landau Collection [2023年09月22日]

Two years ago, in November 2021, Sotheby’s recorded its best-ever auction total of $676 million at an evening sale of masterpieces from the Macklowe Collection, which attracted a strong participation of Asian collectors wishing to acquire leading American works. The following year, in 2022, Christie’s excelled with extraordinary results from its sale of works from […]

The rise of the German art market [2023年06月27日]

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 […]

Christie’s New York: quick overview of their May masterpieces [2023年05月09日]

The world’s leading art auction house has announced a series of exceptional sales for the month of May, including Modern and Contemporary art from major private collections. Under the title Christie’s 20/21 Century, Christie’s May sales in New York will bring together works spanning a whole century of art from the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg […]

Prints: The Sale of the Century… one of the most important collections of prints ever put up for auction [2023年04月28日]

Christie’s had already started the season well: its sales of Contemporary prints were marked by BANKSY’s NOLA (Green Rain) which fetched $184,000 in London and David HOCKNEY’s Walking Past Two Chairs which sold for $57,600 in New York. Then there were the good results in its Prints and Multiples online sale that generated a total […]

News bites: Picasso commemorations – Chagall sales – Kusama results [2023年04月21日]

  Picasso commemorations Pablo Picasso died half a century ago, on April 8, 1973 at his home in Mougins, in the south of France. To commemorate his passing, more than 50 exhibitions have been organized around the world and the auction market can expect a very substantial offer this year. Already, since the start of […]

Review of Q1 art market through the prism of three rankings [2023年04月18日]

In the first three months of 2023, more than 147,000 artworks changed hands at auctions around the world, but only 13 generated results above the $10 million threshold. If we lower the bar to 7-digit results (<10 million, but > 1 million), there were just under 300 results in this price range, representing less than […]

Ceramic creations on the Contemporary art auction market [2023年04月11日]

Artists who produce artworks in ceramics – either as their primary activity or as a sideline to work in other mediums – are more numerous than one might expect. Indeed, the outer limits of this art form are being pushed further and further back. Historically associated with the great art of sculpting statues, then relegated […]

Christie’s London: the first results [2023年03月07日]

On the evening of February 28, a session dedicated to Surrealist Art concluded Christie’s first series of 20th and 21st century art sales of the year in London. The “20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale” session generated $155.38 million and was immediately followed by the 22nd edition of “The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale”, which […]

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 […]

Fast money on the art auction market: from Picasso and Basquiat… to flipping Ultra-Contemporaries [2022年09月27日]

Pablo Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat represent two of the most important figures in 20th century Art History, but in auction market terms their works generate more turnover than any other artists living or dead. While Picasso regularly takes top position in our annual auction turnover ranking (with over $550 million in 2021), Basquiat reached second […]

An overview of Christie’s big New York results last week… [2022年05月17日]

Christie’s New York hammered a whole series of exceptional new auction records last week. If we include the staggering $195 million paid for by Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn on Monday 9 May (see our article “Andy Warhol’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetches top price ever paid for a 20th century artwork”) – which imparted […]

A stunning selection of Masterpieces in May! [2022年05月10日]

The major sales in May will be offering works from a number of exceptional collections including the Macklowe, the Ammann, the Anne H. Bass, the Maezawa and even the Gersten and Jacobs collections. So important are these collections that the sale of their “nuggets” promises to revise several global auction records! An Andy Warhol Marilyn […]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong: an exceptional start… [2022年05月03日]

Last Wednesday, three marquee sales at Sotheby’s Hong Kong took a total of 221.8 million dollars, the highest amount ever achieved in a single evening at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. This spectacular total included the sale of an exceptional De Beers Blue Diamond that fetched 57.5 million dollars, one of the highest prices ever paid for […]

Top 10 auction results around the world in Q1 2022 [2022年04月08日]

During the first quarter of 2022, more than 200 artworks fetched over a million dollars at auctions around the globe. At Sotheby’s the key signatures were Magritte, Botticelli, Monet and Hockney, while prestige sales at Christie’s were above all animated by an incredible canvas by Franz Marc, a triptych by Francis Bacon and a couple […]

Sotheby’s sales dominated by Magritte [2022年03月08日]

On 2 March, Sotheby’s prestige sales of Modern and Contemporary Art in London were dominated by several paintings by Claude Monet, three works by Banksy (from the collection of singer Robbie Williams) and, above all, a masterpiece by René Magritte which generated by far the best result. $79.5 million: René Magritte’s new auction record A […]

What’s coming up in March? [2022年02月18日]

The calendar of major art auctions has been underway since the end of January, in particular with the sale of Botticelli’s superb The Man of Sorrows, a masterpiece that fetched $45.4 million at Sotheby’s New York at the end of January. Nevertheless, the pace will accelerate in 15 days: Christie’s and Sotheby’s are once again […]

Artprice looks back over 2021 auction highlights and the NFT phenomenon [2022年01月11日]

The term ‘NFT’ has been elected word of the year 2021 (all languages combined) by the Collins English Dictionary. The blockchain technology supporting the existence of NFTs was officially born in 2017, but it is only in the last ten months that it has attracted the general public’s attention by inviting itself into the art […]

French artists on top of the market! [2021年12月07日]

As the year closes, we add up and compare the market performances of the artists at auction all over the world. Our initial conclusions, in early December, indicate that 2021 is going to be one of the best-ever years for artists of French nationality (or French residence), far outstripping the overall results for artists of […]

The high end market for prints: focus on Hokusai’s Great Wave [2021年11月10日]

Matisse and Picasso, Haring and Basquiat, Warhol, Richter and Banksy… the year’s top-selling prints have shown a distinct preference for Modern & Contemporary works over ‘historical’ works. Indeed, the appeal of the new is perfectly illustrated by the fact that the year’s highest price in this medium so far is for a work by Banksy, […]

Market temperature in Hong Kong after Sotheby’s recent sales [2021年10月19日]

In the first half of 2021 Sotheby’s posted a spectacular total of HK $1.3 billion ($167 million) from its Hong Kong Modern Art sales, a new record for Sotheby’s in Asia. Christie’s, for its part, posted a clear turnover increase on its HK fine art sales during H1 2021, with a significant evolution in the […]

Artprice analyses the art market’s dazzling recovery from the health crisis in H1 2021, fortified by its digital transformation [2021年08月04日]

In the first semester of 2021 the art auction market managed to recover all of its dynamism. If all goes well, the art fairs which will resume in September. They will, however, have to contend with a substantially modified market characterised by the sensational arrival of NFTs and sky-high prices for works by very young […]

Sotheby’s last big sale before the summer [2021年06月22日]

The final stretch of Sotheby’s major Contemporary art sales in Hong Kong, with 22 June as the last day of no less than 12 days of bidding. The particularity of this voluminous Contemporary art session is not only related to its duration and its online action, but also to its choice of curator: a certain […]

Over a billion dollars worth of art sold in New York this week [2021年05月14日]

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 […]

Monet and Basquiat tomorrow at Sotheby’s… Over $40 million each? [2021年05月11日]

On 12 May in New York, Sotheby’s will be hosting two evening sales: one dedicated to Impressionist & Modern art, the other to Contemporary art. The two most expensive works – a Monet and a Basquiat respectively – could each exceed $40 million. An important painting from Claude MONET’s Water Lilies series and one of […]

What Christie’s has in store for us in May… [2021年05月04日]

A clear sign the art market is returning to its pre-pandemic condition, the catalogues for Christie’s mid-May sales see the return of major masterpieces… in number, in diversity and in price… Whereas all the indicators were in the red last year with a constrained and impoverished market, the selection of Modern and Contemporary works due […]

New records in Hong Kong [2021年04月23日]

Hong Kong plays a key role in Sotheby’s global fine art auction activity, generating almost a quarter of its global annual turnover. In 2020, the American company was the best performing fine art auctioneer in Asia as a whole, taking $563 million in the region. This week, Sotheby’s Hong Kong closed eight “Spring sales”. We […]

Historic volume of transactions in the first quarter [2021年04月20日]

Despite all the restrictions art market professionals have faced, Q1 2021 ended with a historic record in terms of the number of lots sold on the auction market. During the first quarter of 2021, more than 112,000 artworks changed hands in auction sales around the world. This remarkable figure illustrates the strong growth dynamic of […]

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