Top Auction Results for Contemporary Photographers
August 25, 2011 by admin
Filed under Fine Art Registry, General Art Interest
Cindy Sherman, Andreas Gursky, and Richard Prince
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 very much in its infancy and only represented 2% of total Fine Art sales revenue in 2010 (and 52% of the total transaction volume in the photography segment as a whole).
This week’s TOP identifies the ten best auction results generated in the Contemporary photography segment. With a new personal record of $3.4m, Cindy Sherman is today the world’s most expensive Contemporary photographer on the art market!
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Jacques Louis David’s The Death of Socrates
August 25, 2011 by admin
Filed under Art History, Fine Art Registry, General Art Interest
The Death of Socrates: Jacques Louis David
Jacques Louis David arose from a wealthy and well-connected family. He seemed always to escape serious problems and at the same time move into less prominent positions of power. He was political in nature and used art to push his views. At times he moved ahead and at others found himself imprisoned by the opposition party. While Robespierre was guillotined for his participation in Revolution and crimes against the state, David escaped execution because he did not feel well. David seemed to be upset with the French academy of art and was known for his displeasure, but through connections was able to secure a home in the Academy and was able to marry the academy manager’s daughter…read the entire article at Fine Art Registry, entitled: The Death of Socrates: Jacques Louis David, Master of Wiggle Room
Roman Opalka (1931-2011), Remembered
August 19, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Artists, Fine Art Registry
Roman Opalka, Polish Numbers Painter, Remembered
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 on 6 August 2011 aged 79, putting an end to a work that he began 45 years earlier, originally called 1965 - ∞, and now entitled 1965-2011…
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