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- Contemporary art - New arrivals to the world of public auctions
- 2006 – Cézanne centenary
- The market in Arman sculptures
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Market Trends
- In the United States, the Artprice Global Index is now higher than the peak of 1990
- The Top 10 Artists by turnover
- While Old Master Paintings are changing hands at the London auctions, collectors can simultaneously find a broad selection of Old Master paintings on the Artprice marketplace.
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Contemporary art
- Contemporary sculpture in excellent shape
- Contemporary art market: results from the spring/summer season of 2006
- The Lyon Contemporary Art Biennial in numbers
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Analysis
- A peak in the art market in 2005?
- 5,000 works of art permanently on offer on the new standardised marketplace
- Art as investment: no speculative bubble
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Sales
- Contemporary art: lots of new records in New York
- Impressive price rise for an Old Master drawing
- Old Master Paintings: views of Venice at the forthcoming London sales
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Discovered by the advertising magnate and collector Charles Saatchi, the leading icon of the British scene knows the market rules off by heart. He is a strategist in art marketing and is getting himself talked about again by organising an exclusive sale at Sotheby's.
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The growing interest shown by emerging markets (China, the United Arab Emirates, India...) and good performances from traditional markets resulted in spectacular figures for the first half of 2008. This has silenced the sceptics who were still expecting economic woes to have a knock-on effect on auctions.
The first Half of 2008 at auctions has so far countered gloomy and alarmist prophecies of a recession with sales of EUR 3.8bn (more or less equivalent to the EUR 3.7bn for the same period of 2007) and 504 bids over a million euros compared to 517 as of July 1st 2007. The art market has repeated the record performance reached in 2007 without beating it.
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He was one of the most sought-after 20th century photographers: he worked for Harper´s Bazaar for twenty years, spent twenty-five designing cover pages for Vogue, and twelve for The New Yorker and captured the reality of events and people of his time without a trace of sentimentality. From the glamorous world of fashion to the austerity of the struggling, lower middle classes of the American West, he devoted his talent to capturing flashes of truth. He was a photographer who embodied renunciation, working from No, replacing colour with black and white and sharpening the focus on his models with neutral backgrounds. Read more - [août 2008] |
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In two years, Dubai has clearly affirmed itself on the global art market with the first edition of Art Dubai in 2007 - inviting some 30 galleries from around the globe - and with the establishment of both Christie´s (2006) and Bonhams (2008) in the city. Since their arrival, the two action houses have been selling works by modern and contemporary artists from Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon and Iran and they have succeeded in fostering growing demand as well as significant price inflation. The Dubai prices represented his record.
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As 7-figure bids become commonplace in the speculative and volatile contemporary segment of the art market, bidding for less publicised older works is still buoyant. The Christie´s and Sotheby´s sales of Old Master Paintings on 8 and 9 July 2008 generated new records with rare masterpieces from private collections.
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During their lifetimes, several New Realists gained considerable recognition in the United States. Their participation in the artistic maelstrom of New York during the 1960-80s partly explains their success at American and British auctions. Pierre Restany, a travelling art critic and polyglot involved in the emergence of the movement, worked towards their promotion in the USA; artist Niki de Saint Phalle, a French-Americain, frequently crossed the Atlantic; Jean Tinguely gained notoriety with his Homage to New-York, a cacaphonic happening at the MOMA in 1960 whose apotheosis was its intended self-destruction. The following year, Arman exposed for the first time in New-York, while Leo Castelli, a dealer of Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, opened his gallery to Yves Klein.
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Originally from in Anvers in Belgium, Jan Fabre developed a French connection via his fascination for the work of his namesake Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) a 19th century entomologist and poet who described with tremendous accuracy and passion the life of insects, particularly beetles. Indeed, the iridescent carapace of beetles is a key material in the Jan Fabre's work. Since 2002, the magnificent changing reflections of 1.4 million beetle shells decorate the ceiling of mirrors of the Royal Palace Brussels as part of his most impressive official order.
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