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Christie’s turns over USD 491.4 million from one sale [2006年11月08日]

As expected, Christie’s auction of Impressionist and Modern art has confirmed that the art market is running at historical highs. In a single evening session involving a total of 78 lots, the auction house generated the astonishing figure of USD 491.4 million, the highest ever turnover at a single sale, far higher than Sotheby’s previous global record of USD 286 million notched up in May 1990.

Paris Photo: zooming in on the photography market [2006年11月08日]

Paris becomes the world capital of photography this November, playing host to numerous exhibitions, fairs and auctions. Now in its 14th year, the Month of Photography will provide the occasion for more than 80 themed exhibitions. At the heart of the festivities, Paris Photo, the prestigious international fair held at the Carrousel du Louvre between 16 and 19 November and now in its tenth year, will showcase the works of 106 artists in 88 galleries — a vast panorama of the photography market embracing everything from the early masters to the very latest works.

French humanist photography [2006年11月07日]

Between photo-journalism and picturesque paintings of society, humanist photography is a superb witness of people’s mannerisms and customs. The core of this artistic current occurred after WWII through to the late 1960s. The photographs of Robert DOISNEAU, Édouard BOUBAT, BRASSAÏ, Willy RONIS, and others, fed the newspapers and magazines of the era …and are often reproduced today. These photographs – charged with emotion and capturing fleeting moments of everyday life – have the undeniable documentary value of authenticity, but simultaneously, via their black and white medium, express a certain aesthetic of nostalgia. Over the years, this duality has particularly attracted collectors who, today, are not frightened to pay high prices for big names in photography.

Sale of the year… [2006年11月02日]

The impressionist and modern art sales are the centrepiece of the New York auction season. As ever, Sotheby’s and Christie’s catalogues include some exceptional pieces.

The FIAC, at the heart of the French market in October [2006年10月22日]

In October, the French art market is dominated by the FIAC, its principal contemporary art fair, judiciously organised for the period between the Frieze fair and the Art Cologne fair.

Maurice Denis : A Nabi at the Orsay Museum [2006年10月19日]

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris will be celebrating the works of Maurice DENIS from 31 October 2006 to 21 January 2007. This retrospective homage should give the public a clearer understanding of the artistic evolution of a painter who was a contemporary and friend of Paul GAUGUIN, Pierre-Auguste RENOIR, Edgar DEGASand Édouard MANET, among others.

Artprice Intelligent Links® – art market e-advertising [2006年10月15日]

Artprice, today the world’s leading art marketplace and enjoying average monthly growth of +10.9% over the last year, has, for the first time in its history, launched an online advertising service: Artprice Intelligent Links®.

The Second School of Paris – or informal art after WWII [2006年10月11日]

Over the last ten years, the price index for the second School of Paris has risen 130%; but it has not yet overtaken the level it reached at the height of the art market bubble in 1990/1991.The term second School of Paris refers to abstract artists working in France between 1940 and 1965. Like the Nice School, the Paris School is not a school as such, but rather a label that allows the art world to lump together a mixed bag of French and foreign artists living in France including the Russian Serge POLIAKOFF, Hans HARTUNG from Germany, Gustave SINGIER from Belgium, JJean-Michel ATLAN from Algeria, and Maria Elena VIEIRA DA SILVA from Portugal, among others. According to a number of art critics, these artists had interests in common with other “informals” like Pierre SOULAGES, Jean FAUTRIER, Maurice ESTEVE, Gustave SINGIER, Roger Bissière and Jean Bertholle.

Contemporary art from Switzerland [2006年10月05日]

The “new Swiss artistic scene” started to appear in museums and the major auction houses towards the end of 1990s.Switzerland has been the breeding ground of major contemporary artists like Jean TINGUELY, BEN, Niele TORONI and Felice VARINI. Collectively these artists experimented with new materials, produced interesting results from mixing art with life (and vice-versa), and generally broadened our fields of perception. Since then, other artists have caught our attention by using video and creating protean and uninhibited installations.

Contemporary art market: results from the spring/summer season of 2006 [2006年10月02日]

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.

Yves Klein – Painter of the immaterial [2006年09月24日]

For four months, starting 5 October 2006 and ending 5 February 2007, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris will dedicate a retrospective to Yves Klein, the “painter of pure feelings and emotions”. Yves Klein changed the history of art simply by the depth of his IKB (International Klein Blue). In market terms, the US and UK actively support the French artist and its auction houses generate 80% his annual sales revenue compared with 9% in France.

Nan Goldin’s photography of the intimate [2006年09月10日]

Nan Goldin is an American photographer born in 1953 who built up an intimate journal of 30 years of shots. Life and work are indistinguishable for this artist who began by a near obsessive photographing of her family after her sister committed suicide. Later, she turned her lens on an extended family of friends and lovers.

ARTPRICE partners GOOGLE’s News Archive Search [2006年09月06日]

Artprice is a partner in Google’s revolutionary new service “Google News archive search” that has just been launched. In the framework of the partnership agreement, Artprice has provided exclusive databases in 5 languages.

Maximilien Luce – impressionist heritage [2006年08月29日]

Maximilien LUCE was one of the major artists of the neo-impressionist period. He was associated with Camille PISSARRO, Paul SIGNAC and Georges Pierre SEURAT who was probably the key figure of the neo-impressionist movement. During his life, i.e. between the 1880s and his death in 1941, Luce produced a large volume of work that includes oil paintings, lithographs and numerous drawings.<%/DESC%>

His favourite themes – which happen to be the most sought-after on the market – are the leisures and labours of the ordinary people of his epoch, as well as landscapes of Paris, Normandy and Brittany. As an ardent anarchist, Luce was particularly keen on depicting the living conditions of his working-class contemporaries in realist and everyday situations.

Cubist sculpture [2006年08月28日]

As a Fine Art segment, the price index for Cubist sculpture contracted in 2005, but seems to be growing again this year.

MARCEL DUCHAMP – The art of provoking the art world [2006年08月21日]

With just a handful of “ready-made” works, Marcel Duchamp turned a new page in Art History. These rare and emblematic pieces occasionally surface in UK and American auction rooms.

Successful launch of Artprice Decorative Arts [2006年08月09日]

Artprice Decorative Arts®, the online marketplace for furniture, design, antiques, ceramics, collections, clocks and watches, military memorabilia and objets d’art, was launched two months ahead of schedule on 9 July 2006. Initial results confirm strong demand and Artprice’s powerful reputation in a market that is twelve times the size of the fine art market by turnover. The full data base of 90 million sale results complete with images will soon be available. This new venture means that Artprice can now cover 90% of the market for catalogued auction sales.

Avalanche of records at auction [2006年08月08日]

A massive 6,130 artists have set new records at auction in the 2006 spring/summer season alone. And no fewer than 102 have broken the million dollar barrier this year.

TÀPIES & BARCELÓ – Two generations of Spanish “materialists”. [2006年08月03日]

Antoni TAPIES and Miquel BARCELO have much in common, besides their Spanish origins. Both artists instil their works with an unusually powerful physical presence, through the density of the pictured surface which is scored, uneven, thickened, stained or overlaid with disparate materials.While Joan MIRO encouraged Tàpies to exploit the widest possible range of materials, Barceló was fascinated by André BRETON whose idea of the fortuitous meeting (of objects and ideas) perhaps inspired his experimental quest that led him to incorporate sand and ash, ceramic and bone into his art.

Global Fine Art auction sales turnover: up 48.2%! [2006年07月25日]

The 2006 spring/summer sales season has been one of the most dynamic ever recorded by Artprice. Compared to the first half of 2005, the global figure for total Fine Art sales revenue is showing the incredible growth rate of +48.2%. The figure is today 4 times what it was 10 years ago.

Cindy SHERMAN [2006年07月17日]

From the outset of her photographic career in the 1970s, Cindy Sherman was already making portraits of herself…momentarily…as someone else. Over 30 years, she has created a portrait gallery of social and cultural stereotypes from the 20th and 21st century. After the Untitled Film Stills, her most celebrated series are Centerfolds (1981) – inspired by fashion photography, Disasters (1984-1986) – a series of nightmarish fairy-tales, History Portraits (1988-1990) – which parodies historical masterworks, Sex Pictures (1992) depicting dismembered dolls, and the burlesque series Clowns (2003-2004).

Photography is booming [2006年07月04日]

The photography market is in rude health. Prices have risen another 30% in the last twelve months (+207% in ten years) and new records are becoming commonplace, both for modern and for contemporary images.

VIENNESE ACTIONISM – The price of blood [2006年06月27日]

Viennese Actionism is an Austrian revolutionary avant-garde movement that was active between 1962 and 1968. Its principal figures – Nitsch, Muehl, Brus and Schwarzkogler – enacted violent performances with sacrificial overtones, designed to free individuals from their repressions, break social constraints, generally challenge assumptions and ultimately, through the medium of instinctive outpourings, to rediscover an implacable liberty. This provocative movement can only be understood in the context of an Austria wracked by the horrors of the second world war and stifled by its own inner feelings of guilt. Hitler after all was Austrian.

The London School [2006年06月19日]

British figurative art came into being in 1976 with The Human Clay, an exhibition organised by R. B. Kitaj. Lucian Freud (born 1922) and Francis Bacon (1909-1992) accompanied by Frank Auerbach (1931), Leon Kossof (1926), Michael Andrews (1928-1995) and Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932), met in the Colony Room in Soho, London and offered an alternative to the mainly abstract painting of the post-war era.In opposition to the abstract movement and the predominance of colour in painting, the London School stands for “realistic” painting, which aims to get behind surface appearances to reveal the inner truth of the subject. It is painting that intentionally provokes by showcasing subjects that are often utterly unattractive and in crude postures.

COBRA – “Vehement painting” [2006年05月30日]

With a price index showing 160% growth over 10 years and a market now in very short supply of major works, the prices of COBRA works look set to continue rising.

Speculation in New York [2006年05月28日]

At the end of the prestigious May sales, the average price of works negotiated in New York auction rooms was up by 56% compared to that registered at the peak of the speculative bubble in 1990. Over recent months, the rate of inflation observed on the American art market since 1999 has considerably accelerated and since April 2005 average sales prices in New York have risen by 49.6%!

Contemporary art: record prices! [2006年05月22日]

New York sales of contemporary art have confirmed the exceptional dynamism of this market in mid season. Over three days – from 9 to 11 May – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips managed to sell no less than 77 works of contemporary art over the USD 1 million mark. During May 2005, only 44 pieces reached the 1 million mark, and in May 2001 the figure was just 24.

PICASSO ENGRAVINGS – An abundant, but complex market [2006年05月21日]

The most famous 20th century painter was also a very gifted sculptor, assembler, pioneer into unknown artistic territories… and engraver. Between 1899 and 1973, Picasso produced over 2000 engravings. His insatiable curiosity and his appetite for challenges underpinned a prolific and varied output covering a whole range of different engraving techniques, including techniques invented by himself.Engravings therefore make up a very significant element of Picasso’s oeuvre, but should not be acquired without discernment.

Artprice announces upcoming launch of Artprice Decorative Arts [2006年05月14日]

In 2005, Artprice turned itself within a year into the world’s leading marketplace for fine art, with nearly 34,000 works offered for sale every day and 90,000 daily visitors, up by 93% between October 2005 and April 2006.

Artprice’s popularity, and its new Artpricing estimate service, have also revealed massive demand for trading and for pricing data in Furniture and the Decorative arts, particularly among its clients.

GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY – From reality to fiction [2006年05月10日]

Bernd and Hilla Becher are the leading lights of “objective” photography in Germany. Their approach refutes the anecdotal and focuses on inventorying anonymous “industrial sculptures” that appear throughout our environment. The radicalism of their documentary work had a strong impact on their students including Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas STRUTH and Candida HÖFER. This later generation of photographers assimilated much of the Becher’s approach, although sometimes freeing itself from the “objective” view of reality by altering their images. From an auction and museum preference point of view, the later generation seems to have become more popular than the objective purism of the Becher period.