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Utensils cook up a Christie’s storm

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Share:AMIT ROY To you and me, Subodh Gupta’s Curry 2 may look like metal bartan bought from the local bazaar for a thousand rupees or thereabouts and stacked neatly on a metal rack but last night at Christie’s in London, this piece of “installation art” fetched £301,250.In case you haven’t got a calculator handy, that […]

New art buyers fire up the top end

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Share:Source:- The Economic TimesLONDON: If proof were needed that the international art market has become a playground for the super-rich, it was delivered by record-breaking auctions in London this week. Just over £40 million ($80 million) for a Monet water lily painting, a record-smashing £15 million for Italian futurist Gino Severini, four million for a […]

Splendour in the grass

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Share:From Economist.comThe beautiful bubble of St James’s Square JEFF KOONS is a big baby. The 53-year-old American artist is entranced by balloons, toy rabbits and big-eared puppy dogs. For nearly two decades he has used these images to create outsized, over-the-top kitsch sculptures finished to magnificent, shiny Brancusian perfection in a foundry in Germany. One […]

Is Bacon in more demand than Picasso?

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Share:AS Sotheby’s and Christie’s gear up for their famously extravagant summer contemporary art sales, the mood is mixed.Last October’s evening sales at Christie’s saw earnings of £34.87m for the auction house and the art world was paddling about in a Frieze-Week sea of champagne; last June the credit crunch was a distant rumour and the […]

Art market powers ahead despite credit woes

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Share:Deborah BrewsterSales in the art market this week exceeded even the most optimistic expectations, with buyers at major New York sales defying widespread fears of a market slump as a result of the credit crisis.Sotheby’s had its biggest sale ever by dollar value on Wednesday night, selling $362m worth of contemporary works. It sold a […]

Rich pickings

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Share:By Charles Batchelor The very rich will go on accumulating wealth faster than previously forecast, in spite of the turmoil in financial markets and the US economic downturn, according to a new survey.A growing demand for “passion investments” – art collections and luxury goods – in Asia-Pacific, eastern Europe and the Middle East is expected […]

London auctions prove that art is now for the super-rich

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Share:The Earth Times London – If proof were needed that the international art market has become a playground for the super-rich, it was delivered by record-breaking auctions in London this week. Just over 40 million pounds (80 million dollars) for a Monet water lily painting, a record-smashing 15 million pounds for Italian futurist Gino Severini, […]

Big Picture: It’s a good time to buy art

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Share:Nalini S. MalaviyaAs the stock market continues its downward trend, there are a number of investors turning to art as an alternate investment option. In the past, we have discussed how domestic art is rapidly emerging as an asset class. Analysts confirm that despite last year’s fall in the art index, this year it has […]

A very hungry collaboration

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Share: Subodh Gupta and Bharti Kher’s careers reflect a vivid new turn in Indian contemporary art. LAKSHMI INDRASIMHAN profiles the red hot couple THERE’S A hyena in Bharti Kher’s bath. There’s what looks like a chimp’s skull on her bookshelf and magnified pictures of a fly Photos: Shailendra Pandeypinned to the wall. Three assistants are […]

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