Sales

Prices disconnected from market reality?

At a time when Artprice’s Art Market Confidence Index shows purchase intentions exceeding 70%, auction estimates for Impressionist & Modern Art in New York are still rising.

Contemporary art’s extraordinary success in London

Post-War and Contemporary art sold particularly well last week in London (28 and 29 June).

The first summer sales of London

In two days (21 and 22 June 2011), Sotheby’s and Christie’s posted more than £207m vs. £233m in 2010, £61.5m in 2009 and £246m at the market’s peak in 2008.

Prices rise in London

All the indicators are in the green before the London sales. Sotheby's and Christie's prestige Impressionist and Modern Art sales will compete on 21 and 22 June

Prestige sales in New York produce mixed results

Although generally considered safer (and less volatile) investments, the Modern Masters failed to generate the estimated results at Christie’s and Sotheby’s May sales in New York, generating a combined total of just $285.65m from their Impressionist & Modern Art sessions.

Spring's Design

The big Decorative Art & Design sales of the year started in London at Phillips de Pury (Design, 7 April) and Christie’s (20th Century Decorative Art & Design, 20 April)

Sotheby's records

Every fortnight Artprice posts a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. The focus of today's TOP article is the 10 best auction results generated by Sotheby’s.

Photography - New York / London / Paris

A few days after the close of the AIPAD Photography Show New York, the city was preparing for another week of photo events including no less than five dedicated photography auctions between 6 and 9 April.

The sale of the Ullens collection confirms the strength of Chinese art

Two weeks after the news of China’s domination of the global art market, all eyes were focused on the sale of the famous Ullens Collection at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on 3 April 2011.

Contemporary art 2011: a new lease of life!

The austerity imposed by the crisis has been relegated to a distant memory. Collectors are back in the market, not just as observers but as active participants.

Impressionist & Modern sales in London: the right balance?

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.

Contemporary Art sales in February: a bold selection with records expected

The big Contemporary Art sales begin just a few days after the Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London.

Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London: maintained confidence

As usual, the first major dates in the global auction calendar are the prestigious sales organised by Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London.

Design takes centre stage

The third week of December 2010 sees plenty of activity on the design front with 900 lots being offered between Chicago (Important Design at Wright on 14 December),

Strong demand for Chinese Modern art

In the autumn of 2008, Hong Kong was the first art marketplace to suffer the effects of the economic crisis on the art market.

Auction records at Phillips de Pury

Every fortnight Artprice posts a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. The theme of today's TOP article is the 10 best auction results generated by the auction company Phillips de Pury.

Impressionist & Modern Art sales in New York: better results…

Sotheby's and Christie's have both posted improved figures after their Impressionist & Modern Art evening sales in New York compared with the same sales in 2009. The unsold rates are substantially lower at between 20 and 26% and their revenue totals are up.

June 2010: major sales in London … and in Paris!

The major London sales during June were stacked full of high quality works: an ultra-rare Manet self-portrait, a Fauvist work by André Derain with an extraordinary background and an absinthe drinker from Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’ - the results could not fail to better the previous years’ totals.

Paris / London – forthcoming Impressionist & Modern Art sales

Before the art world settles down to a quiet summer, we can look forward to some profitable auction results in London at the sale of the Polaroid collection (to pay its debts) on 21 and 22 June, the Impressionist & Modern Art sales of 23 and 24 June and the Contemporary Art sales of 28 and 29 June.

Christie’s and Sotheby’s anticipate price increases

For their Contemporary Art sales on 11 and 12 May 2010, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are betting on high prices for masterpieces signed Warhol, Klein and Rothko. But above all, the catalogues contain a number of major works that the crisis has withheld from the market.