by Judith Benhamou | Oct 28, 2020 | Art History, Artists, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Uncategorized, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/giE0LqylYOA Heroes who die young In art history, posterity favours misfortune and heroes who die young. We love Van Gogh, who died at 37 without having sold a single artwork. We love Nicolas de Staël, who killed himself due to a failed romance at the...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 22, 2020 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Gallery
Secondary first It is a little known fact that the majority of galleries representing living artists manage to maintain their business through sales on what is described as the “secondary market”. This involves the resale of older artworks made by artists either...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 20, 2020 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art, Video interviews
Genius Henri Matisse is, without doubt, a painter of genius and an endless source of visual surprises and delight. The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth was anticipated to be a blockbuster if it wasn’t for Covid. But it...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 18, 2020 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Uncategorized, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/-Gp0p5XRMyI Cancellation On 15 October 2020 Paris’s contemporary art week was meant to have kicked off, which would ordinarily have accompanied the great French Fiac fair, with its plethora of all kinds of events, conferences, exhibitions, and...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 9, 2020 | Art Market, Auction house, Contemporary art, Interview, Modern Art, New York
Patrick Drahi It’s been 12 months since Sotheby’s was bought by the French businessman Patrick Drahi. It’s been 9 months since he appointed a new head of the auction house, former investment banker at Morgan Stanley then co-president of Altice USA,...
