Global art sales are down by 22% from 2015, as the Art market reacts to a turbulent year with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit. The number of mega-expensive works sold and this represents pieces over the value of $10m for a single work of art has also tumbled...
Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1963 will be a featured highlight at Christie’s in its May 17 Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale in New York. Estimated at a staggering $50,000,000-70,000,000 the work painted in 1963, marks the...
Adam Clayton Bassist in the Rock band U2 has put a rare Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing up for auction at Christie’s. The self-portrait goes under the hammer next month, after residing for 25 years in his private collection. The pop star bought the artwork in 1990 when...
Several Turner Prize Winners including Antony Gormley Anish Kapoor and Grayson Perry have created artworks from found material taken from the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art to raise funds for the restoration. Over twenty-five, international artists were posted the...
Iconic American painting such as Rothko and Rauschenberg will be featured in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 7 March 2017 in London. Mark Rothko’s groundbreaking No. 1 (1949, estimate on request), is one of the artist’s earliest examples of...
An extremely rare portrait from the late 16th century by the renowned Italian Baroque artist Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), which belonged to King Philip V of Spain and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, has been discovered following extensive research...
Rich is a non-gender specific term. But what about the fact that the top ten richest artists are all male. After all How many female artists featured in the top 100 auction sales, last year? 83% of the artists in Tate Modern are men, along with 70% of those in the...
What is rich? Here are some definitions taken from the Oxford English Dictionary that may apply to the ten people who top our 1% richest list of successful artists. Rich Definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 1) Having a great deal of money or assets;...
Warning… If you are easily offended then please do not open this top 10! Art has been a great marker for social change and most of the works in this week's feature would hardly raise one of my eyebrows. I leave it up to your discretion to act as judge, jury and...