Analysis

2011 from the AMCI’s viewpoint.

In 2011, Artprice’s Art Market Confidence Index hit its all-time high, spent a few days in negative territory and throughout the year accurately reflected the concerns and expectations of art market participants.

Post-War and Contemporary Korean artists

Every fortnight Artprice provides you with a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. This week we present the ten best results for Korean Post-War and Contemporary artists during the first half of 2011.

KIAF 2011 – Overview

The tenth KIAF having just ended, Artprice takes a retrospective look at one of the most constant Asian fairs, that of South Korea, the world’s 13th market for Contemporary art.

Overview of 2011 first semester

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,

Art Taipei / 26 - 29 August 2011

Now in its 18th year, Art Taipei is the oldest art fair in Asia. This year it opens on 26 August, presenting 124 galleries at the World Trade Center of Taipei.

Contemporary Photography

Every fortnight Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week's TOP identifies the ten best auction results generated in the Contemporary photography segment.

Japanese artists

Every fortnight Artprice posts a new or updated ranking in its TOP series. The theme of today's TOP article is the 10 best auction results generated by Japanese artists.

Best auction results in H1 2011

Our Friday TOP! Every other Friday Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week we present the ten best auction results in the first half of 2011.

Exclusive Interview With Thierry Ehrmann, the Founder and CEO of Artprice.com

It was first of all an enormous amount of collective work involving incredible art historians. In just 14 years, we bought up almost all the editorial funds in Europe and the USA and now we're working on Asia. This covers art publishing houses, art editorial funds worldwide and assets representing over EUR30 million.

Old Masters

Our Friday TOP! Every other Friday Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week we present the Top 10 auction results for works by Old Masters.

Prints: a very broad price range…

A personal art collection often begins with some kind of ‘multiple’ work like a photograph or a print. These formats – which usually change hands at very affordable prices – represent a low-risk way of participating in the art market.

Last chance to win...

On 28 September 2010 Artprice opened a Twitter account in order to offer its members a continuous flow of art market-related information.

Overview of the art auction market during the first half of 2010

At the end of the first half of 2010, global auction revenue from fine art amounted to €2.9 billion. This figure is indeed €800m short of the peak of the first semester of 2007 (€3.7billion), but it is up €1.2 billion versus first semester 2009.

Top 10 auction results of Turner Prize winners

Every fortnight Artprice provides you with a new or updated ranking in its Alternate-Friday Top Series. The theme of today's TOP article is the Top 10 auction results generated by Turner Prize winners.

From Phillips to Phillips de Pury & Co.

Phillips de Pury & Co.'s inclination towards contemporary art, photography and design perfectly demonstrates the mutations of the art market during the last decade. The auction house experienced the exhilaration of the surge in prices and the violent contraction of the market... no matter what, Phillips de Pury & Co will stick with ultra contemporary art.

The end of the Geneva Free Port: a boon for Asia

The tightening of Swiss legislation concerning the Geneva Free Ports represents a windfall for the Asian market. And for the French market…?
The company Geneva Free Ports & Warehouses Ltd, which presented itself as a “genuine offshore base at the heart of Europe”, lost its precious status as an extra-territorial zone in May 2009 and become “free port storage”.

Venice Biennial Art Fair: the Golden Lion prize

The 53rd Venice Biennial Art Fair opens to the public on 7 June 2009. For six months it presents a panorama of global contemporary art in pavilions representing the artists and countries invited. Launched in 1895, the Venice biennial has a long tradition of selecting a handful of artists to receive its prestigious prizes. Do the Golden Lions - awarded parsimoniously over the years - constitute an accelerator for the price indices of the artists that receive them?

Affordable art: a diversified market

For 10 years now a special “roaming” art fair has been dedicated to affordable art contributing to dispelling the notion that art is elitist and beyond the budgets of the masses. From 4 to 7 June 2009, the Affordable Art Fair is returning to Paris, at the Espace Champerret, having already visited London, Sydney, Amsterdam, New York and Brussels. Young collectors and informed non-professionals seeking new talents can discover more than 600 artists at prices ranging from 100 to 5,000 euros.

Results of the Contemporary art sales: seriously off the boil

A week of sales in London Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips de Pury & Co tested the resilience of the contemporary art market which has been the most speculative and volatile compartment of the market over the last few years.

A peak in the art market in 2005?

The international art market has never performed so well. The figures are record-breaking!

In 2005 the turnover for Fine Art sales exceeded USD 4 billion, vs. USD 3.6 billion the previous year, despite a practically stable volume of 320,000 lots. This incredible progression came on the back of a price increase of 10.4%* last year, following on from the 19% rise already recorded in 2004. This price inflation translated into a multiplication of sales exceeding USD 1 million