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Is the animation art industry ready to bring out the pig to stutter his final "Th-th-that's All Folks!", as the pundits would have us believe? Having spent our lives with a passionate confidence...
Read MoreArticle, November 30, 2011
As we suspected in our previous Insight article, (Prices disconnected from market reality?), a number of the estimates for the masterpieces offered at the New York sales on 1 and 2 November were...
Read MoreArticle, November 29, 2011
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. Judging by Christie’s...
Read MoreArticle, November 15, 2011
Surrealists artists. Since 2001, the price index for surrealist artworks has risen by close to 123%! The top four auction stars of the movement are Dali, Miro, Magritte and de Chirico...
Read MoreArticle, October 31, 2011
Against a backdrop of slow economic growth during the first six months of 2011 and a spreading debt crisis that has amplified the panic on financial markets, the art market has enjoyed the best...
Read MoreArticle, September 19, 2011
The Old Masters art market has two distinct levels: on the one hand there are hundreds of lesser-known artists whose works can often be acquired for 3-figure dollar prices, and on the other...
Read MoreArticle, August 30, 2011
Photography sales - with particularly strong results in the US and in London - have demonstrated collector's appetites for the Contemporary segment of the market. However, this market is still...
Read MoreArticle, August 25, 2011
Artists who devote their entire lives to a single project are rare. Roman OPALKA will go down in art history as one of the most ascetic and most coherent of them all. Roman Opalka died suddenly...
Read MoreArticle, August 18, 2011
While most Old Masters are today exhibited in the world's most prestigious museums and most-visited monuments, some rare works - more often than not, showing signs of age - occasionally makes...
Read MoreArticle, July 9, 2011
Richard Prince draws on the culture of his age, as Andy Warhol did previously. In spite of censorship and litigation over copyright, his contact with the worlds of publicity and fashion, his work...
Read MoreArticle, July 8, 2011
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