Political and economic upheavals As 2019 comes to a close, in a year shaken by various political and economic upheavals, observers may wonder what fate has in store for the modern and contemporary art market. Stratospheric prices Over the past few years, auction...
Successful art fairs These days every successful contemporary art fair, from Miami to Hong Kong, takes place on a city-wide scale. La Fiac And this week that point is being made by the Fiac, the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, which is held between 17 and 20...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZymqxh7i0 Unveiled on the Champs Elysées On 4 October 2019 a Jeff Koons sculpture, “Bouquet of Tulips”, was unveiled in Paris on the Champs Elysées behind the Petit Palais museum, having been conceived by the artist in...
Victim of the Brexit It’s clear to see that the art market is one of the victims of Brexit. What taxes will be applied to artworks due to leave Britain? What will be the potential obstacles to their circulation? Turning toward Paris Certain major galleries have...
Unknown Imagine an absurd situation where there’s a canvas measuring 144cm x 173cm whose author remains unknown, whose sale price also remains unknown, and whose buyer’s identity isn’t really known either. This mass of mysteries has been the subject of intense...
Surrealism and Dada Surrealism and Dada were movements that radically revolutionized not just the art world but also our general ways of thinking, dreaming and writing. Intellectual revolutions If you want to possess testaments to this kind of human...
Selling less The art market is one of those rare places where selling less can also involve selling for higher prices. What I mean by this is that following a long period when younger artists were overwhelmingly considered to be the market’s raw materials,...
Grand tour Between 2016 and 2018 a fabulous collection of jewellery and precious objects went for a round-the-world tour with six stops from New York to London, Paris (the lavish exhibition at the Grand Palais was the subject of a report) to...
Death Who wants to part with their masterpieces? No one. That’s why the biggest art market records, generally obtained for absolutely outstanding works, are the fruit of forced and unhappy circumstances: death and divorce. This is primarily the way in which the...
Uncertainty for ever In the field of Old Masters art uncertainty reigns. The most distinguished specialists spend their time contradicting each other and new discoveries from the history of art flourish in publications. For in the distant past, more...
Specialized in nudity Young boys and girls disrobe to dance a graceful saraband in a composition over six metres long. In 1884, the then famous French painter William Bouguereau (1825-1905), who specialized in nudity under mythological pretexts, created what he...
Emmanuel Perrotin “The first time someone stole a piece of art from me it was a work by Kaws, two small paintings from my gallery in Miami ten years ago,” says Emmanuel Perrotin, the French gallerist with branches in Paris, New York and Asia. “I like...