Art Athina 2018 – Curatorial Strategies Support Strong Artistic Statements – George Micallef Eynaud
Art Athina 2018: When a city like Athens, Greece, is undergoing some form of economic crisis, a paradoxical trend tends to emerge.
3 July 2018
Art Market
Lucian Freud Landscape Discovered Under Suffolk Sign Painter’s Canvas
A landscape painting depicting trees and a bridge over a stream attributed to the British artist Lucian Freud has been… Read More
3 July 2018
Masterpiece London – Affair To Remember – Or Not – Edward Lucie-Smith
The initial omens are not good. As you go into Masterpiece 2018, the first thing that greets you – though ‘greets’ is the wrong word, it stands there as if trying to block your entry
28 June 2018
New Record For Lucian Freud Painting At Sotheby’s London
A painting by the British Artist Lucian Freud from his ‘last great nudes’ series, Portrait on a White Cover has sold at Sotheby’s London for £a record 22.5million / $29.8 million.
27 June 2018
Government Earmarks £20m For Culture and Creative Industries In England
Arts Minister Michael Ellis has launched a £20 million fund aimed at helping culture, heritage and the creative industries to benefit towns and cities across England.
21 June 2018
FIAC Paris Announce Exhibitors List For 45th Edition
FIAC, the leading international Contemporary and Modern art fair, held each year in Paris has announced their exhibitor list for the 45th edition.
31 May 2018
Christie’s Record $1.79 Billion Spring Auction Season
Christie’s Spring auction series in New York achieved a grand total of $1.79 billion across two weeks of sales, marking another crowning achievement in the company’s more than 250-year history.
19 May 2018
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Totals $415,852,500
Another successful Christies Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale has topped expectations with record prices for Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935).
16 May 2018
Picasso Self Portrait Belonging To Casino-Boss Steve Wynn Damaged At Christie’s
A Picasso self-portrait belonging to the Las Vegas casino-boss Steve Wynn has been seriously damaged ahead of a Christie’s sale.
15 May 2018
Modigliani Nu Couché Tops Sotheby’s Highest Ever Record Price At $157m
Amedeo Modigliani Nu Couché has become the most valuable work ever sold at Sotheby’s—selling for $157 million in the 14 May Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale.
15 May 2018
Rockefeller Sale Misses Billion Dollar Mark Despite Monet And Matisse Records
It wasn’t the billion dollar sale that Christie’s optimistically predicted but it was an evening of fierce bidding and record prices for both Matisse and the stalwart of Impressionism Monet.
9 May 2018
Modigliani Nude Predicted To Break Artist’s $170m Auction Record
Sotheby’s has unveiled plans to auction Amedeo Modigliani’s largest painted work, Nu couché (sur le côté gauche).
24 April 2018
Slowing Growth: Hiscox Online Art Market Report Reveal £3B Sales
Based on the current growth trajectory, the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report, published today, reveals that the value of the online art market could reach $8.37 billion by 2023.
16 April 2018
Anne Vierstraete Art Brussels Director In Conversation With Paul Carter Robinson
Anne Vierstraete, the Managing Director of Art Brussels in conversation with Paul Carter Robinson ahead of the opening of the fair next week.
12 April 2018
London Dealer Richard Nagy Ordered To Return Stolen Egon Schiele Drawings
Two works on paper by the Secessionist artist Egon Schiele stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis in the late 1930s have been ordered to be restituted to the heirs of an Austrian Holocaust victim.
6 April 2018
Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 What The Dealers Had To Say
Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 saw a strong collector turnout and vigorous sales across all sectors of the market.
31 March 2018
Will Liz Taylor’s Van Gogh Sold In 2012 For £10m Flip For £50m?
Liz Taylor’s Van Gogh Vue de l’asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy is back on the market again after selling in an auction at Christie’s in February 2012 for £10,121,250.
22 March 2018
Annual Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report Released
The second edition of the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report has been released
14 March 2018
Armory Show Highlights and Lowlights 2018 Round-Up
As we reach the end of another New York Armory Show few revelations are on hand.
11 March 2018
Record London Contemporary/Modern Art Auctions Set Spring 2018 Alight
London’s contemporary sales both evening and day at Sotheby’s and Christie’s have totalled £295 million ($407 million).
10 March 2018
Picasso Muse Portrait Painting Auctioned For Staggering £49.8m
The second-highest recorded auction price for any work of art ever sold in Europe was achieved tonight when Picasso’s Weeping ‘Golden’ Muse
28 February 2018
It’s Official: Frieze To Launch New Los Angeles Art Fair Next February
As we all suspected Frieze have now officially announced that they are to mount an event in LA. The new annual contemporary art fair in Los Angeles will be presented at Paramount Pictures Studios.
23 February 2018
Art Genève A Pleasant Encounter By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
I really enjoyed visiting Art Genève (1-4 February) as well as discovering the city’s art scene last week.
11 February 2018
20/21 British Art Fair Sold And Rebranded At Saatchi Gallery
The 20/21 British Art Fair, is to be rebranded as The British Art Fair and move to the Saatchi Gallery, as part of a major investment by its new owners.
7 February 2018
Picasso Portrait Painted The Same Year As Guernica To Be Auctioned
Pablo Picasso’s Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s after an… Read More
14 January 2018
Condo London Announce Gallery Line Up For 2018 Event
Condo London opens its third edition (13 January-10 February) with 17 galleries in the capital hosting 27 of their international contemporaries.
2 January 2018
Stolen Hans Hofmann Paintings Recovered – Scandalous Inside Job Exposed
Part of a collection of Hans Hofmann paintings stolen in 2004 from a New York City-based fine art storage facility has been recovered. Working with the NYPD and the FBI, Art Recovery International negotiated the release of one of the paintings.
26 December 2017
Sotheby’s Rounds Off 2017 Reaching $4.7 billion Annual Sales Total
Sotheby’s concluded their 2017 auctions this week, reaching an annual sales total of $4.7 billion that represents a 13.1% increase over our 2016 results.
21 December 2017
Art Basel Miami Beach What The Dealers Said – 2017 Round-Up
Art Basel in Miami Beach now in its 16th edition closed with buoyant sales across the board.
11 December 2017
Art Collecting Beyond Investment A Legacy Of Love – New Report
The UBS annual art market report released last week (6 December 2017) has recorded that despite high-profile sales; art collectors were largely driven by legacy and love, not investment and profit.
10 December 2017
Abu Dhabi Identified As Buyer Of $450m Da Vinci Salvator Mundi
We now know that the Louvre Abu Dhabi is going to exhibit Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” which sold last month in a Christie’s Contemporary sale in New York for a cool $450 million. However the identity of the buyer has remained a secret with speculation now focusing on the Abu Dhabi Royals as the purchaser.
6 December 2017
Art Basel Parent Company MCH Buys Masterpiece London In Takeover Deal
MCH Group which owns and operates Art Basel has acquired a majority shareholding in Masterpiece London.
4 December 2017