Share:By Stephen Adams The stratospheric state of the global art market has been underlined by figures that show last month’s ‘Monet’ auction at Christie’s in London was the most lucrative in European history. The sale of Monet’s Le bassin aux nymphéas doubled the previous record for a work by the Impressionist artist Despite the global […]
Share:By Deborah Brewster The boom in the art market has handed strong results to the two big auction houses, with Christie’s and Sotheby’s together selling about $7bn worth of artworks in the first six months of the year – 12 per cent more than last year. Christie’s said yesterday it had total worldwide sales of […]
Share:July 16 (Bloomberg) — Christie’s International said it will be selling the art collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge in Paris in February 2009. The auction will be held in association with Pierre Berge & Associates, the Paris auction house owned by the fashion designer’s former business partner, Christie’s said today in an […]
Share:Colin Gleadell on the London sales With auction prices for contemporary art still somewhere in the stratosphere, it often felt like catch-up time at the Old Master sales in London last week. The Misers was estimated at £100,000, but spiralled on trade competition to £2.1 million Three drawings by Goya, for instance, unseen for more […]
Share:London – Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place this evening (24 June 2008) and realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 – the highest ever total for an art auction held in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Le bassin aux nymphéas, a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet which realised £40,921,250 […]
Share:By Scott ReyburnLondon auction houses sold a record 558.8 million pounds ($1.1 billion) of art including fees over two weeks, with buyers coming into the market seeking to make money as other investments stalled.The total, calculated by Bloomberg from auction house results, is the highest for Impressionist and contemporary sales in London, beating the 521.1 […]
Share:MIKE COLLETT-WHITE LONDON — There are enough “recession-proof,” super-rich buyers to push soaring prices for the best works of art still higher, experts predict, but the picture is less rosy at the lower end of the market.And in a world where perception is everything, values for even the world’s most sought-after artists could come back […]
Share:By Sharon Mizota A PART YET APART: Sheba Chhachhi’s photographs, including “Jater Ma,” document a little-examined Indian population: women ascetics. The emergence of Indian art is further evidence of the country’s influence. An L.A. exhibition takes a look.IN INDIAN artist Mithu Sen’s 2007 picture “Perhaps You,” a dark-skinned woman smiles coyly beneath a blond, ’60s-style […]
Share:International auction houses right from Sotheby’s and Christie’s to Indian auction houses like Osian’s, are scurrying to organise auctions that offer rare books. At the upcoming Osian’s auction many rare Indian works on modern masters such as Raja Ravi Varma, Ravindranath, Amrita Sher-Gil, Ismat Chughtai, George Keyt, MF Husain and FN Souza among others will […]
Share:July 3, 2008 in The “Art World” | Tags: art, art prices, art world, Globe and Mail, Mike Collett-White | There are enough “recession-proof,” super-rich buyers to push soaring prices for the best works of art still higher, experts predict, but the picture is less rosy at the lower end of the market. And in […]
