Artprice traces the Art Market's recent history via Sotheby's
PARIS, Dec. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Between its second IPO in 1988 and its delisting inOctober 2019, the prestigious American auction house often reoriented its global strategy and made numerous operational adjustments involving cost management, offering more guarantees, structural reorganizatio...
Artprice Indices: art values are holding up...
PARIS, Nov. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Artprice's quarterly Global Art Market
Index normally shows seasonal fluctuations and, in the longer run, has shown a
slight contraction since 2016.In 2020, despite the health crisis, the trend has
continued unperturbed without any visible drop.
Artprice looks at five "positive anomalies" on the Art Market in 2020
PARIS, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Thanks to online sales, the major auction houses have found a way to continue to operate and countervail the Covid-19 health crisis. Lockdown forced them to activate the sudden and complete dematerialization of their most prestigious sales and their correspond...
Artprice by Artmarket.com: Condition of the Street Art market worldwide
PARIS, Oct. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- At its online sale on 28 May 2020, Phillips sold Banksy's lotHappy Choppers (2003) for $39,000. That may not seem surprising until you take into account that the work was a screenprint numbered 621 from a series of 750, purchased four years earlier for$4,500.....
Artmarket.com publishes the new Artprice's Report on the Contemporary Art Market, the primary growth driver with a +2,100% increase over 20 years
PARIS, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- "Artprice is proud to present this exclusive report which traces the evolution of the Contemporary Art Market over 20 years," announces thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of ArtMarket.com and its Artprice department. "The story it tells reflects a multitud...
Artprice by Artmarket.com: The role of independent experts in the Art Market
PARIS, Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2019, France's art auction turnover total rose by +18% versus 2018, reaching a record830 million US dollars and consolidating the country's fourth place in the global ranking of major national marketplaces. But, it isn't yet a direct competitor to theUnite...
Artprice: Sotheby's, Phillips and Ketterer adapt to the new reality
PARIS, Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On 29 June 2020, the charismatic Sotheby's auctioneer,Oliver Barker, brilliantly orchestrated – alone in front of an audience of screens – the sale ofFrancis Bacon's triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (1981) for $84.55 million. This result was par...
Artprice by Artmarket's 2019 Annual Art Market Report Shows Continued Growth With an All-time Record Number of Transactions Based on Global Confidence
PARIS, Feb. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Artprice by Artmarket's 2019 Annual Art
Market Report shows continued growth with a all-time record number of
transactions based on global confidence in the market, and the French market
was particularly strong in 2019.
Artprice by ArtMarket.com: How to Objectively Define Contemporary Art in 2020?
PARIS, Jan. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- For the sake of coherence, clarity and transparency, Artprice's editorial team has always divided Art History into five main periods with artworks being classified according to a simple and indisputable criterion... the birth year of their creators: * 'Old ...
Artprice by Art Market: 10 Works That Should Ignite Bidding at New York's Prestige Sales, 11 - 20 November 2019
PARIS, Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- For thierry Ehrmann, founder/CEO of Artmarket.com, "This year's best auction performances have relied less on the Art Market's top four ultra-prestigious signatures (Monet, Picasso, Warhol and Basquiat) and more on artists who are gaining momentum. The major au...
Artprice by Art Market: Cimabue... Another French Success, Along With the Lalanne Sale Last Week and Paris Photo 2019 Next Week
PARIS, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A small painting depicting The Mocking of Christ,and attributed by Eric Turquin's team of experts to Cimabue, sold at Senlis Auction House nearParis for no less than $26.8 million on 27 October 2019 . This is the best Fine Art auction result hammered inFrance s...
Artprice by Art Market: The Geopolitics of the 15th Lyon Biennale
PARIS, Sept. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Some fifty artists have been commissioned this year to producein situ artworks at the former Fagor factories in Lyon. It's the first time the Lyon Biennale will make use of the 29,000m² site located not far from the highly symbolic spot where the Saône flows ...
Artprice by Art Market: Latest Auction Records in Photography
PARIS, Aug. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Although Photography currently accounts for just under 2% of the total value of the global secondary art market, the medium has become a permanent feature of the art world after a lengthy process of acceptance that dates back to the end of WWII and which has m...
Artprice by Art Market, H1 2019 Art Market Report: Demand Intensifies for Contemporary Art as Supply Contracts and Prices Rise
PARIS, Aug. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- * Prices of Contemporary Art were up 40% * Average annual ROI worked out at +4.6% for an average holding of 13 years * Tighter supply pushed prices up * The volume des Fine Art* transactions was up very slightly: +0.1% * The USA (-20%), China** (-12%) ...
Artprice.com is Changing Its Name to Artmarket.com to Become a Global Player in the Art Market
PARIS, July 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- thierry Ehrmann: "Artprice recently
celebrated its 20th anniversary. It took twenty years to establish Artprice as
the Global Leader in Art Market Information, its declared ambition in its 1999
IPO prospectus."
Artprice: France's Cultural Policy is Not in the Country's Best Interests According to thierry Ehrmann
PARIS, June 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- By pursuing a strategy of concentrating the country's cultural offer on its capital,France is leaving itself dangerously exposed to stronger players. French artists, galleries and auction houses are finding it increasingly difficult to emerge from the shadow o...
Artprice Presents a Ranking of Contemporary Art Museums in France Based on Google Opinions - Methodology and Facts, Which Have Been Legally Verified
According to thierry Ehrmann, "Artprice's head office is the Contemporary Art Museum known as theMusée l'Organe which manages the ERP (Establishment Receiving the Public, i.e. museum)La Demeure du Chaos, otherwise known as The Abode of Chaos." PARIS, June 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Methodology: th...
Artprice: Hong Kong Drives the Contemporary Art Market
HONG KONG, May 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Christie's, Phillips and Bonhams have at last started their 2019 sales programme inHong Kong, two months after the other major auction houses began theirs. Sotheby's,China Guardian, Poly, Council and Seoul Auction organized their first majorHong Kong sessio...
Artprice: The Art Market Snaps up the New "Classics of Contemporary Art"
PARIS, May 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Art Market might have seemed a little hungover in early 2019, in need of some event that would reassure everyone, and that's exactly whatNew York's prestige sales did last week. The results proved that the hammer prices recorded in Q1 inLondon, notably for ...
Artprice: Big is Beautiful! Expected Record at New York Auction for Louise Bourgeois
NEW YORK, May 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- One of Louise Bourgeois's six Spider sculptures, measuring more than 7 meters across and 3 meters tall, will be offered for sale at Christie's on15 May 2019 in New York. Numbered 3/6 in the series, the work already fetched$28.2 million in 2015 and Louise Bour...
