Resilience Resilience. Since the onset of the public health crisis sweeping the entire planet, this is a word that has been used extensively – and not always correctly. But if there’s a field that truly merits this label, it’s the art market....
Mariane Ibrahim, the Chicago gallery representing Amoako Boafo, opens a new space in Paris
https://youtu.be/2YQG-SnFnwU J'ai deux amours “J’ai deux amours” … On 18 September a new gallery space is due to open across 400m2 at 18 Avenue Matignon, in Paris, run by the French-Somali art dealer Mariane Ibrahim, with an inaugural...
Pierre Matisse: the ‘American’ son of the painting genius who became one of the great dealers of his time
https://youtu.be/RLKOwokicu4 Son of a giant How to exist in your own right when you’re the son of one of the giants of 20th century painting? To put it another way, how do you “kill your father” when your father is Henri Matisse...
Les Lalanne in Versailles and Williamstown. The prodigious rise of their ostriches, cabbages and sheep at auction
Stephan Zweig “It was a doll’s house, this Little Trianon (…) This ‘Anglo-Chinese garden’ was to represent, not merely nature, but the whole of nature. In the microcosm of a few square kilometers, there was to be a quasi-microscopic...
Paolo Roversi: a sale that’s like a glimpse of the famous fashion photographer’s inner world
https://youtu.be/umK1ESHSBeI Snapshots with a soul Photographing a top model is all well and good, but having the ability to infuse these beauty snapshots on glossy paper with a soul is nothing short of miraculous. Those who can do this...
Masterpieces from a secret French collection of tribal art are auctioned at Christie’s
To travel gloriously “What is the good of moving when a man can travel so gloriously sitting in a chair?” The great decadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans offers a good description of the state of immobility conducive to savouring one’s...
Bazille: artworks by the legendary impressionist painter who died at 28 miraculously appear on the market
A legendary artist For those who are truly interested in impressionist art, Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) is a legendary artist. He only painted for a period of seven years, before dying aged 28 after enlisting in the French army in 1870 during...
New York contemporary art sales: the impact of trends still plays a role in the art market even during a pandemic
Emerging from the crisis New York is emerging from the public health crisis. And the art market is following suit. At a time when those who had been vaccinated were permitted to walk around without masks in the United States, the Frieze...
Frieze New York: the first American fair since the start of the pandemic, between social conscience and elitism
No foreigners No foreign visitors, or only very few… Frieze New York, the first fair to effectively take place on American soil since the outbreak of the pandemic, is receiving very few - if any - foreign visitors between 5 and 9 May 2021. The...
Vietnamese modern art: between Hong Kong and Paris the market for the school of painting that emerged from the colonial occupation is booming
The colonial past While the world re-examines its colonial past and condemns the occupation by former empires of vast swaths of distant territory, while supporters of “cancel culture” topple through the sheer force of their voices the statues...
Justin Sun: the crypto entrepreneur who will soon be investing 100 million dollars in art. Exclusive interview
https://youtu.be/cGAPJhvLlA4 30 years old He’s thirty years old and he’s in a hurry. It’s been scarcely six months since NFTs were created and already Justin Sun, the Hong Kong-based Chinese founder of the cryptocurrency platform Tron,...
1932: Picasso’s most fascinating year is even attracting crypto-investors . Christie’s pushes up his value
The ultimate art-market star Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is the 20th century’s star painter, but he is also the ultimate art-market star of the early 21st century. Looking at the numbers, according to the Artprice database 100 euros invested on...